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BEVERLY HILLS: Gene Kelly, all-American dancer, choreographer and actor, best known for his joyous dance routine in "Singin' in the Rain", died in his sleep today at the age of 83 in Beverly Hills. TIME's Richard Schickel remembers Kelly for his "American flair, a robustness that hadn't been a part of movie dancing before." Often compared with Fred Astaire, a more romantic dancer, Kelly brought a unique athleticism and an earthy romanticism to movie dancing. He had very high aspirations for dance in the movies and brought innovations such as the 1945 film "Anchors Aweigh", where...
...signing ceremony was hardly a joyous affair. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic grumbled that "my government is taking part in this agreement without any enthusiasm but as someone taking a bitter yet useful potion or medication." He openly questioned whether the unified Bosnia foreseen in the treaty will "truly materialize or will it simply remain something on paper?" Croatian President Franjo Tudjman traced the roots of the crisis in Bosnia back more than 15 centuries to "the breakup between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire," obviously implying that the wounds cannot be healed quickly. Bill Clinton, who presided...
This kind of joyous catharsis is what the old movie masters of romantic comedy--Frank Capra, Leo McCarey--sometimes delivered. You don't expect to find it in adaptations of classic literature. You don't expect to find it in modern movies. You certainly wonder how a Taiwan-born director like Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) has managed to reach across time and cultures to deliver these delicate goods undamaged. Maybe some of that whoosh of delight one feels at the end of Sense and Sensibility is for him, and his emergence as a world-class director...
...countrymen felt much the same way. There were few joyous celebrations in Sarajevo, but quiet smiles and sighs of relief were everywhere. There were understandably mixed feelings. Sanel Isovic, 29, a lawyer, says she had feared from the beginning that the negotiations would fail and the war, and the brutal siege of Sarajevo, would resume. Now that a compromise agreement has been made, she says, "I am suddenly disappointed because this is not what we have been fighting and suffering for." But Hata Bandic, 27, probably speaks for the majority when she says, "I think of what we went through...
...Western capital, but Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a freelance mastermind operating in today's chaotic Russia, has a dreary back story explaining how he went wrong instead of truly evil elan. Big mistake: we don't want motivation in a Bond nemesis; we want psychosis on a joyous, cosmic scale. Gert Frobe, you are missed...