Word: connorism
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DIED. DONALD O'CONNOR, 78, rubber-limbed actor-dancer who brought an irrepressible vaudeville energy to films and TV; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Born to vaudeville folk, he played straight man to a talking mule in six popular Francis movies and won an Emmy for an early TV series. In the Make 'em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain, he made mock love to a cloth dummy, did backflips off a wall and then hurtled through it--still smiling--in the greatest comic dance solo in film history...
...Died. Donald O'Connor, 78, comedian and film sidekick whose Make 'Em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain is considered one of the great solo dances in Hollywood history; in Calabasas, California. The son of an Irish-born circus strongman, O'Connor shared top billing in six films with Francis, a talking mule...
...Connor has a different objective in mind for the class: to give his students an appreciation of the intelligence of the Hollywood machine...
...graduate, Connor says, “you don’t have to find yourself leading a life of ‘the man is oppressing me, I can’t get my independent feature made, they’re all stupid.’ They’re not stupid; most of them are their classmates...
...Connor says that the burgeoning DVD revolution—which has led to the digitalization and preservation of movies in a permanent format for the first time ever—makes film criticism particularly exciting, and he hopes to convey that to his students...