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...turn on the television lately without hearing news of LIZA MINNELLI. Depending on one's point of view, this may or may not be cause for celebration. Days after her March wedding, Minnelli, 56, and her curiously well-preserved new husband David Gest, 48, thwarted a mugging on their honeymoon in London. Last week she opened her new show at the Royal Albert Hall, impressing critics by belting out standards and dancing energetically. But on the same day, she was named in a lawsuit brought by her stepmother Lee Anderson Minnelli, 94, who was married to Liza's father Vincente...
...Astaire?s prime-time vehicles with Ginger were pretty inane, except for the glorious terping, and his directors added little but traffic management to the packed Astaire brought. Kelly worked for better directors - Busby Berkeley on "For Me and My Gal" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," Vincente Minnelli on "An American in Paris" and "Brigadoon" - but, as co-director of two of his best films, he could take a measure of credit for their success, even as Astaire, who was "only" the star and choreographer, could avoid blame for his films? inadequacies...
...sure, on his dance numbers, Astaire supervised the camera movements - or, rather, non-movement. It sat obediently immobile, like an attentive member of the audience, cutting very rarely from long shot to medium shot. In a Kelly film (or Kelly-Donen, or Kelly-Minnelli), the camera was more than an observer in the musical drama; it was a participant, prowling and swooping to keep up with Gene, to dance with him. In film after film, Kelly and his team met the challenges of capturing dance on film. As Oretga describes it: "Putting the camera in the place where...
Jackson was seated in a box by the side of the stage, squeezed between Elizabeth Taylor and Macaulay Culkin. After lackluster performances by a Who's Who of mediocrity--James Ingram, Deborah Cox, Al Jarreau--the evening got weirder. Liza Minnelli, made up like a Joan Crawford female impersonator, performed You Are Not Alone with a gospel choir and then directed a few bars of Over the Rainbow to the royal...
MICHAEL JACKSON's 30th Anniversary Celebration, the Solo Years--a two-night, self-thrown tribute to be held at Madison Square Garden in September--is bound to be a cornucopia of good taste. Liza Minnelli will perform You Are Not Alone with a 300-voice gospel choir; Marlon Brando will make a rare live non-nude appearance; and the JACKSON 5--older and stiffer but surely just as cute--will reunite. Indeed, five Jacksons will reunite--but not all are original. Citing "the exorbitant prices being charged" for the event, Jermaine Jackson is a conscientious objector. Jermaine claimed that...