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Dinner last week included a fresh herb salad with baby vegetables and citrus vinaigrette, black bean soup with creme fraiche, and a light vegetable tempura with ginger tamari sauce. For the salad and the tempura, both of the sauces were strong and outweighed the taste of the food itself...
...DIED. GINGER ROGERS, 83, movie star; Rancho Mirage, California. She was a young but scrappy veteran of more than 20 films and shorts, he a neophyte with one movie and a screen test behind him when they first danced together in 1933's Flying Down to Rio. Before the decade was over, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire had become the most famous pair of dancers that would ever cut their way across a high-gloss floor or up a spiral staircase. In the memorable words of Katharine Hepburn, the pairing gave him sex and her class-yet Rogers' own singular...
...course, there is no comparison to the "Cheek to Cheek" number in the dazzling "Top Hat" (1935). Ginger Rogers appears in a silky, white, floor-length dress; Astaire sweeps her onto the floor and they dance into heaven, as the song says...
...Ginger and Fred's dancing may seem too orchestrated, too perfect to many younger people who would rather watch shoot-em-up dramas or sci-fi flicks. True, there is a lot to be said for dramas and science fiction. But our generation is missing out on plain, old-fashioned beauty by watching only modern movies at the expense...
That said, Ginger, those of us who do watch your films will miss you. In your movies with Fred Astaire, you stood for quiet pizzazz and untainted glamour, for elegantly tailored gowns and effortless dance steps. You may not have given us profundity, but you've given us beauty and grace--and they can't take that away from...