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...Gene Kelly created his own style," choreographer Kenny Oretga says in "Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer," a documentary airing this weekend on PBS (Sunday, March 3, on the "American Masters" series, with reruns surely galore on your local stations). "He was the most athletic, the most exciting, the most masculine, the most commercial dancer of his time. He created a technique. He was his own technique...
...speaking of Kelly?s movie personality, as semaphored by his body language, and perhaps as filtered not by the age that he emerged from but by the one that followed him. In fact, according to the PBS film, the private Kelly was as "grounded" as his dance style. Unlike half of Hollywood in the 40s, he was not in analysis "Some people are successfully blocked," says playwright-screenwriter Arthur Laurents, "and he was one of them. He was happy with himself." His theme song could have been the solo he sings in "It?s Always Fair Weather": "I like myself...
Goodwin’s return to the PBS show is not guaranteed...
DIED. REGGIE MONTGOMERY, 54, stage actor who won critical praise for his performance in the 1986 play The Colored Museum (later televised on PBS) and was the first black clown to perform with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus; of undisclosed causes; in New York City...
DIED. LANCE LOUD, 50, journalist, punk rocker and eldest son of the Santa Barbara, Calif., Loud family, whom PBS filmed for 300 hours for the groundbreaking 1973 documentary An American Family; of complications from hepatitis C; in Los Angeles. With its intimate look at family life, the 12-part series won the praise of Margaret Mead; the openly gay Lance, who wore blue lipstick and came out on the show, was its star. The Louds later regretted participating. Lance wrote, "Television ate my family...