Word: folios
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...should not mock artistic ambition, especially in a movie time when there is so little of it. But Kelly?s most secure achievements are the brighter, more intimate pieces, like the one in "Summer Stock" with a squeaky floor board and a newspaper folio; finally Gene tears the paper into two, four, six, eight pieces - with his feet. It was in these solo "stunt" numbers that Kelly and Astaire seemed to compete with each other most explicitly; each invented ever-more outlandish and amazing virtuoso bits with props and especially film tricks. Gene dances with his shadow self ("Cover Girl...
...often soured into rancor and vindictiveness. He laid a paranoid rant on Alec Wilder when the esteemed musicologist asked permission to quote snatches of Berlin songs for his study "American Popular Music." And though Berlin enjoyed writing parodies of other composers' songs, he sued Mad magazine for a 1962 folio of song parodies, including several of his ("Always," "A Pretty Girl..."). The suit was eventually dismissed. Finally he believed that a cultural environment that ignored his contributions was no culture at all. "Show business?" he told a friend. "There's no more show business! We whistle in the wind...