Word: cancan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least of which is that Frankie got there first. They met on the set of Can-Can. She was "terrified of him," but soon she fell for the bony build, that dimpled chin, those big blue wisecracks. He, in turn, was more entranced than Khrushchev by her cancan, and-in another scene of the film-must have got ideas when she slid sensually down from the branches of the Tree of Life, dressed in blue-green moltable snakeskin, a big red apple in her hand...
...some old Porter favorites (You Do Something to Me, It Was Just One of Those Things, Let's Do It). But the old favorites don't make much sense in their new context, and, anyway, they are badly sung. Some of the dances are different, too: the cancan, as it is canned in this picture, is a more sanitary matter than the original Parisian routine-a noisy, sweaty predecessor of the striptease, with a name that is one of the more notorious puns in the French language...