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...high end, Mikhail Baryshnikov hailed him as the dancer of the century, and Jerome Robbins created a ballet in tribute to Astaire's "I'm Old Fashioned" dance with Rita Hayworth. Starchy Teutonic theorist Siegfried Kracauer praised him for injecting realism in Hollywood films by "dancing over table tops and down garden paths into the real world." Kracauer was totally wrong - Astaire didn't bring realism but rather a nonchalant nobility to movies - but it's touching that the nutty professor bent his theory to accommodate a tap dancer he loved...
...Acrobatic tap dancer who with his older brother helped break the color barrier in Hollywood musicals... Mikhail Baryshnikov called them 'the most amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life--ever...
...rescue of Napster after his kids told him how cool it was. Says his wife Mary, a busy antitrust lawyer: "We talked about forming a firm together but decided we preferred romance." She's clearly a fan. Seeing him in the courtroom, she says, is like seeing "Baryshnikov at the ballet...
...Stevenson was a graceful Baryshnikov in the ring, Savon is a raging bull. He KO'd U.S. heavyweight DaVarryl Williamson in the finals of the last Goodwill Games with a crushing right to the jaw a minute into the first round. "Savon has done that magnificently," says Stevenson. "But he's not a technical fighter." And he has begun to pay for it. He won the world title in 1997 only because his opponent, who outpointed him 14-4 in the final, was later disqualified. The same year, Savon was knocked out in a tournament at home. As a result...
...Early in their career, the brothers' dizzying footwork and preternatural elegance was displayed onscreen, though never in the same scenes as their white counterparts. In 1948, however, their virtuosity landed them alongside Gene Kelly in The Pirate. The brothers awed such dance-world luminaries as Fred Astaire and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who called the Nicholas brothers "the most amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life--ever." They were honored by the Kennedy Center...