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...Sometimes he says things like, "Listen, there's got to be something on the other side of the rainbow." At other times, he wails, "There must be a place somewhere in the world where the songs are real." But it's 1934, and only stars like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have anything to sing about. Times are hard. No one wants to buy Arthur's music. An evil bank manager refuses to lend him the money to start up a store. Worst of all, his frigid wife Joan just doesn't like sex. "I want...
...relaxation. Even subtle shifts in their owners' life-styles can send kitties into tailspins. When Philadelphia Writer Marc Kaufman, 32, and his wife Lynn Litterine, 35, brought home their new baby, their cats, Yukon and Ted, became perverse-fighting, spraying and hissing. The couple sought out pert, brunet Ginger Hamilton, 45, a cat shrink, one of only a dozen or so such practitioners in the country. Her pet-psychology office in Silver Spring, Md., has quadrupled its business in the past decade. For a fee of $50 an hour, Hamilton began involving Yukon and Ted in play-and-affection...
...sing. Balding. Can dance a little." But oh, how he danced! That was evident from Ms second film, Flying Down to Rio (1933), when he was paired with a perky chorine named Ginger Rogers. Between then and 1939 Astaire and Rogers made eight films-and movie history...
Fred was nature's nobleman, Ginger the plucky girl who made good by dancing well. It didn't matter that the films' plots were aggressively silly, the dialogue often inane. When the music swelled, and Fred took Ginger by the hand, and she leaned into his body, and the dance began, a more beautiful story was told: of the emotions only motion can convey, of two people's need for transcendence, of the perfect fusion of passion and technique into a delicate, sensual mating dance...
...looked impossibly easy. It was not: six weeks of rehearsal before every film, dozens of "takes," worn-out shoes, bleeding feet. Even now, as Astaire looks back on the Fred-and-Ginger films from the vantage point of his one-story marble palace in Beverly Hills, he likens the experience to "running the four-minute mile for six months. I'd lose 15 lbs. during rehearsal," he told TIME'S Martha Smilgis. "But then you'd get in a winning groove-a kind of show-business dream sequence where you can't do anything wrong...