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...nightly saturnalia at Stonewall produce protests that would kick start the modern gay-rights movement? The uprising was inspirited by a potent cocktail of pent-up rage (raids of gay bars were brutal and routine), overwrought emotions (hours earlier, thousands had wept at the funeral of Judy Garland) and drugs. As a 17-year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. "[She] hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing--or didn't care," one of her friends later told...
...collar workers. Now airing on BBC America, it's the best comedy to debut here this season, because its characters are the kind of hard-to-pigeonhole folks you find in life--or on reality TV. On Survivor and The Amazing Race, the gay men don't drop Judy Garland references in every scene. MTV's Making the Band 2--a kind of hip-hop American Idol--gave center stage to inner-city kids who would be portrayed as perps or victims on a cop drama...
...supermarket or dry cleaner, someone wanted you to "have a nice day." The Democrats used to chorus, "Happy days are here again." The noted self-help guru Bobby McFerrin counseled, "Don't worry, be happy." Other pop singers tell us that happiness is "a thing called Joe" (Judy Garland), "what my life's about" (Vanessa Williams), "when you feel really good with somebody" (Al Green), "a warm gun" (John Lennon), "an option" (Pet Shop Boys). The old saloon singer Ted Lewis used to ask, "Is everybody happy...
Bawth's release is rewarding Knight with some late-career fanfare. During the initial Eloise craze, he was often overshadowed by the zany Thompson, an accomplished nightclub performer and voice coach to such stars as Judy Garland and Lena Horne. Given to bouts of melodrama, she once sawed the legs off her baby grand piano so that she could serenade her pug "eyeball to eyeball." By all accounts, her sanity teetered as she aged. She spent her last years holed up in the apartment of her goddaughter Liza Minnelli, refusing contact with almost everyone...
...When the team split, Astaire kept doing it all on his own. His dancing partners over the next 20 years included some prime enchantresses: Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron, Audrey Hepburn, Barrie Chase. But Astaire's solos became his signature pieces. On his own, he used stage props - and the properties of film - as cleverly as he had earlier translated stage dance to the screen. He defied time by dancing in slow motion in "Easter Parade," defied gravity by dancing up walls and across ceilings in "Royal Wedding," defied age by hoofing serenely through his sixth, seventh...