Word: keatons
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...sequence took eight weeks for Sinatra to learn and perform. But with that industry and application, young men could copy the standard Kelly posture: torso erect, legs swerving as if jellified. That?s the legacy of Kelly?s teenage tap-dancing. Tap has just that contradictory posture: Buster Keaton from the waist up, Jim Carrey from the waist down. The form has a built-in irony, one half of the body counterpointing and commenting on the other half...
...Family Ties” has its roots in the definitive generation-gap comedy of the 1970’s, “All In the Family.” The working-class Bunker family, though less educated and refined than the Keatons, was just as diverse politically. The frequent debates between bigoted conservative Archie and his liberal son-in-law Michael mirror those between Alex and Steven Keaton. But while Archie Bunker’s children were adults who might be expected to challenge the crusty patriarch’s dogged views, the eldest Keaton siblings were mere adolescents...
Though political humor pervaded Keaton dialogue—when he’s asked by his girlfriend’s father, “What are you, a dancer, poet, communist?” Alex replies, “No sir, I’m against all those things”—the show was not concerned with taking a political stance. Politics were always subordinate to family, a message reinforced by the producers’ decision to replace the original opening credits, a series of photographs from Elyse and Steven’s hippie days, with...
...maintain that “Family Ties” achieved commercial and critical success on account of politics or eccentric kids would be to sell short the rare charisma that oozed from the pores of Michael J. Fox, now and forever Alex P. Keaton. People tuning in to “Family Ties” repeats are nostalgic not merely for legwarmers and Watergate humor, but for the boy Fox once was. Alex’s eagerness to grow up is now steeped in tragic irony, as his real-life counterpart is stricken with Parkinson’s disease...
Throughout his ordeal, Fox has retained the boyish charm and wit that made Alex P. Keaton, the cold-blooded capitalist, into a lovable older brother and a hero to quite a few children of the 1980s. Yet Fox is no longer the carefree sprite he used to be—and the show’s theme song now hits a little closer to home...