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...Hoof and Croon. Kelly has directed some new sequences to introduce the film clips, pleasant interludes sung and danced by the director and Fred Astaire, appearing together for the first time in a movie since they did The Babbit and the Bromide in Ziegfeld Follies (1946). Astaire is 77 but retains his very particular charm. He is part boulevardier, part made-in-U.S.A. naïf. Kelly, 63 and still able to dance in and out of rain puddles better than anyone else ony earth, stages these hoof-and-croon sessions with roughhouse smoothness. Among the assorted clips...
...Black are well-crafted, polished statements. Both choreographers steer clear of the dangerous gap between conception and realization haunting Gray's work. Yet neither compacts the poetic suggestiveness of Soll. Kramer's "Notion" is a slick dance to a slick song, picking up its title from Billie Holiday's croon, "If I should take a notion to jump into the ocean, ain't nobody's business if I do." Kramer uses her own slinky way of moving to draw the sinuous lines of Holiday's lament. At one point she cooly trails her index finger along the floor, then follows...
...record is James Taylor's "Hey Mister, That's Me Up on the Jukebox," a performance that makes the original look pallid by comparison. She delivers a polished rendition that gives full play to her great range, belting the song out one minute, falling back to a croon the next. A disillusioned account of the life of a music star, the song seethes with bitter irony...
...culture in California (which is not just the gamblers) without bothering us with a moral. There's a music in the way gamblers talk with each other and, more telling, the way they talk to themselves. When a singing voice finally enters the picture halfway through, the gritty Vegas croon fits perfectly because Altman had the rhythm already primed...
...aroma of lasagna and meat balls fills the air, and amateur Carusos croon over the loudspeakers. There are grape-stomping contests and a step-by-step demonstration of how to make sfinge, an Italian confection. At the evening's end a spray of fireworks flares over the neighborhood as proud residents and guests clap and cheer, aware that they have seen the past and that on the Hill at least, it still works...