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...just yet. His charisma, his style, his sex appeal are still irresistible; he is still very much the enfant terrible of dance. And since his strong suit, even in his heyday, was never technical perfection--his particular brand of excellence has always involved character over precision--he remains a dancer to be seen and remembered and discussed...
DIED. Eleanor Powell, 69, exuberant, leggy tap dancer whose nimble heels and toes propelled her to stardom in 1930s and '40s Hollywood musicals; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. In her first film, George White's Scandals (1935), Powell covered four miles in her dance routines, and in Broadway Melody of 1940, she gloriously matched Fred Astaire tap for tap. Those movies, and such others as Born to Dance (1936), Rosalie (1937) and Lady Be Good (1941), won her critical acclaim as the best woman tap dancer on film...
...longer that new little country on the other side of the Atlantic. It had proven its might in the Spanish-American War and was well on the way to becoming a major world power. To this setting of jingoism and unbridled national pride came George M. Cohan, singer, dancer, and playwright, with more than a touch of the patriotic. Little Johnny Jones, his 1904 musical celebrating the expansive American spirit might find audiences as appreciative today as 80 years ago with the occasion of its revival at the Goodspeed Opera House...
...could not cope with his need to have sex twice a day. One couple, in a now famous case, argued so bitterly over whose family should pay for the wedding that the husband ran away and the wife filed for divorce after, five days of marriage. Xiao Lan, a dancer and something of a social butterfly, tired of her introverted husband Fang Baojian, filed for divorce and declared in court: "I no longer love Fang. I long for a free world. I'll sleep with any man I wish to sleep with...
Some actors might be called the lion tamers of the theater. Katharine Hepburn may not be talking good sense in West Side Waltz, but when she puts her incandescent ardor behind any given sentence, you'd better believe it. Lauren Bacall is no great shakes as a dancer or singer, but when she fixes a playgoer with those tigress eyes, cool judgment succumbs to shimmering illusion...