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Because the producers determined not to duplicate any footage from That's Entertainment, 1 and 2, some of the best dance sequences in Hollywood history are missing. The segment devoted to MGM musicals offers not highlights but footlights; Astaire's nonpareil work with Ginger Rogers is stinted (Pick Yourself Up, but not Never Gonna Dance); Cyd Charisse never gets to wrap her mile-long gams around any mere male; and Rita Hayworth doesn't exist. This is filmed dance with one leg tied behind its back. Still, hobble as it does, That's Dancing! provides young moviegoers with the chance...
...leading art-auction firm, who was responsible for transforming the genteel, Old World establishment into a glamorous high-tech $575 million-a-year business; of the effects of diabetes; in Paris. After joining Sotheby's in 1936 as a porter, the normally reticent Wilson became a nonpareil auctioneer, dubbed the "fastest gavel in the West." Rising to chairman in 1958, he set about overseas expansion, establishing offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S., notably in New York City with the acquisition of Parke Bernet. His taste, timing and towering presence (6 ft. 4 in.) helped...
...narrow-gauge tracks. One is tempted to demand of these two spectacularly talented film makers that they raise their sights beyond the Saturday-matinee refreshment stand. Lucas seems happy to produce pictures that affect the heart rate but not the heart; and Spielberg, when working with Lucas, concentrates his nonpareil directorial gifts on energizing each frame, keeping his boss and the customer satisfied. But perhaps the young moguls can brush aside such criticism. They know what sort of edifice they want to build. You don't fault a theme park for not being a cathedral...
...appearance as the cavalier in the company's 1,000th performance of the Tchaikovsky classic. An added sprinkle of confected delight was supplied for the farewell by the premiere of Robbins, 65, in the nondancing role of the toymaker Drosselmeyer. For fans of the sugary fantasy, a treat nonpareil...
...detective stories and some atmosphere from spy fiction, but they are essentially different from both. Such works can trace their lineage directly back through the medieval romances to the classical epic and its archetypal plot: a hero risks his life trying to master overwhelming odds. Modern incarnations of this nonpareil (out of, say, Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene or Robert Stone) have become increasingly antiheroic, their designs questionable and their morality ambiguous. But the trials they must endure, the plot of their quests, remain much the same, as formal and stylized as kabuki or an Elizabethan sonnet...