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...studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film archives of the University of California at Los Angeles. The presentation at U.C.L.A. looked like lunchtime at the studio commissary 40 years ago. On hand were...
...company's three less well-known choreographers had their difficulties. Peter Martins did a brief, saucy Piano-Rag-Music for Darci Kistler, showing this explosive teenage star as a Ginger Rogers in pointe shoes. His longer work, Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, illustrated just how recalcitrant Stravinsky can be: Martins' formidable clarity and order were exhausted by the endless drill of notes. Jacques d'Amboise's Serenade en la had one irresistible sequence: a lighthearted duet for two very short girls (Stacy Caddell and Nichol Hlinka), in which the arms are usually joined but the steps...
...CHANCE," Fred Astaire told Ginger Rogers in The Gay Divorcee, is the tool's word for fate. "This cliche, usually restricted to tales of star crossed romances, sometimes merits grander application. Every once in a while, events in two completely different lives take on an uncanny similarity, parallels that could only transcend coincidence...
LEWIS ARGUED that the ginger treatment of Reagan stemmed from three factors. First, Reagan's 1980 landslide and his dexterity in forging what appeared to be a political consensus earned him political respect and legitimacy. His success in winning Congressional tax and budget battles sheltered his weaknesses from immediate exposure. Second, Lewis contended, some journalists are gun-shy because they worry their views on issues are more liberal than the President's and that the public would thus not take hard-hitting accounts seriously. Both those reasons for journalistic quiescence become irrelevant, however, when their raison d'etre-public...
...MOST EXPERIENCED Broadway hoofers might think twice before dancing alongside the larger-than-life screen images of Fred and Ginger in the lovely final dance sequence of Follow the Fleet. For the competent but mediocre Steve Martin and the Less-than-competent Bernadette Peters (also mediocre) to try it is simply ridiculous. (The dance pyrotechnics are best left to Christopher Walken, who steals the film's best scene--and unfortunately his only one--while executing an elegant strip tease on top of a barroom pool table...