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Tuneful, tasteful, Soulful, smart. Music: Rodgers. Lyrics: Hart. - Irving Berlin...
...Capa entered a world in conflict, between nations and between his parents. In his teens, André - poor, clever, bored, romantic at heart and discriminated against as a Jew - became involved with leftist revolutionaries, seeking out conflict and danger. When he was barely 18, he moved to Berlin and took up photojournalism. His first big break came in 1932, when he was assigned to photograph Trotsky as he spoke in a Copenhagen stadium on the meaning of the Russian Revolution. His pictures were the most dramatic of the day, writes Kershaw. Taken within a meter of so of Trotsky, they...
...Pick Yourself Up," another you-hate-me-now-but-when-we-dance-you'll-like me number, from "Swing Time." And I can't imagine a more beautiful expression of reluctant rapture than Ginger's in the "Cheek to Cheek" dance from "Top Hat." And not just the song (Berlin's finest) or the dance (one of Astaire's most brilliant). I'm thinking of the coda: a startlingly suspenseful 12 seconds of silence as Ginger considers the ecstasy she has just shared with a man she believes to be married. It's post-coital remorse and wistfulness...
...their most famous song or dance; it hasn't the grand romantic sweep of "Cheek to Cheek" or "Never Gonna Dance." And Davie Lerner makes me feel guilty for choosing it. But I'm sticking with "Isn't This a Lovely Day," the Irving Berlin number from "Top Hat" - a superb parable of pursuit, resistance and union: a getting-to-know-you story that becomes a dance of sexy-romantic...
...June 22, 1987, Astaire never vanished, never even dimmed, from popular esteem. He became the icon for what was once the aristocracy of popular culture. He surely represents that to me; I've already written about him for TIME.com, in That Old Feeling columns on Irving Berlin and Gene Kelly. In 1998 I wrote a TIME piece called "High and Low," about the devolution of the people's art. " Start with two fellows from Omaha, Neb., born 25 years apart. One was frail, comical-looking, yet he epitomized elegance in an era when glamour was the ability to steer...