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...Bruce Handy's tongue-in-cheek memoir "I, Too, Remember John" [CARTOON, June 3]: Although I was not a particular fan of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s, I found this treatment of his memory to be appalling. It trivializes and undercuts the life of someone who was basically a good person and who tried to accomplish something with his talents. The comic strip, totally unfunny in itself, must have been incredibly offensive to those who truly knew Kennedy and cared about him. DAVID R. GOODRICH San Antonio, Texas...
...streets. It's late but the mayor wants to prove that Davao is safe, anywhere, any time. He ambles past small shops, vendors, restaurants and street corners favored by local hookers. Some of the girls greet him with handshakes and hugs, which he returns with jokes, kisses on the cheek, and some pocket money. "I wanted to end prostitution," he says, "but I had no jobs to give them...
...Granted, Astaire had some pretty good songs to sing. In the 30s, eight of his recordings went to #1 on the pop charts: Cole Porter's "Night and Day," Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek," "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" and "Change Partners," Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' "The Way You Look Tonight" and "A Fine Romance," the Gershwins' "They Can't Take That Away from Me" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It." He had 18 other top 10 hits from these composers, and eight more in the top 20. In a genial symbiosis...
...also the choice of Entertainment Weekly's Ty Burr. I love "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...
...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...