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DIED. FAYE DANCER, 77, former star of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League and the inspiration for Madonna's character in the film A League of Their Own; after breast cancer surgery; in Los Angeles...
DIED. JAMES (BUSTER) BROWN, 88, tap dancer and teacher whose fast-paced rhythms influenced modern stars like Savion Glover; in New York City...
...hour preshow--in this one, the 23 women thwarted in their quest to become Mrs. Michel reunited to offer their commentary and lay odds on which finalist would take home the championship ring. Michel, whose sincerity seemed as thin as his hair gel is thick, sent Trista Rehn, a dancer for the Miami Heat, packing, leaving only AMANDA MARSH, 23, a breast-enhanced, doe-eyed events planner from Chanute, Kan. Though cameras recorded Michel buying an engagement ring, the Harvard graduate told Amanda he would keep it in a safe place while they moved to separate apartments in the same...
...Washington made her film debut in the Dudley Murphy short "Black and Tan" (1929), in which she plays Duke Ellington's girlfriend, a dancer who performs despite illness and collapses after her big number. In this ambitious, primitive two-reeler, she delicately embodies the wild soul inside the dying swan; few actresses looked more wanly gorgeous than she does in her death scene. Murphy (who cast Fredi's sister Isabelle as the Other Woman in his Bessie Smith short, St. Louis Blues") also chose Fredi to play a prostitute in the Paul Robeson "Emperor Jones," where makeup darkened her skin...
...told him my wig was glued to my head. Then he pulled out a bottle of vodka from his oversized Starter jacket to help me “chill.” I told him I was an advocate of prohibition. He called me a bitch. Luckily, the flamenco dancer on stage completed her routine, and I eagerly passed through the door with my raincoat and umbrella to start twirling batons to “It’s Raining...