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...wants to sweat in flannel? Now, with teen pop topping the charts, good choreographers are in demand. Three in particular have emerged as major movers and hip shakers: Tina Landon (who has worked with Lopez and is teaching Aguilera those salsa steps), Darrin Henson (Spears, 'N Sync) and Fatima Robinson (Aaliyah, Backstreet Boys). Says Judy McGrath, president of MTV Group: "These days, when kids send us home videos, hoping to get on MTV, they're dancing in their bedroom, not playing air guitar...
...Landon, 34, a native of Lancaster, Calif., dropped out of junior college and worked as a Laker girl before getting her start in videos. The Bronx-born Henson, 28, says he "never actually trained anywhere...I used to watch music videos on TV and imitate what I saw." And Robinson, 29, from Little Rock, Ark., says, "The clubs are my classroom...
When Jackie Robinson was near death and blind from diabetes, he was given a day of celebration at Dodger Stadium. As he was led back to the clubhouse, Jim Murray, the great sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times, touched him on the shoulder and identified himself. "Oh, Jim!" said Jackie. "I wish that I could see you again." Murray responded, "Jackie, I wish that I could see you again." Tom Callahan, another great sportswriter, told me that story...
...Jackie Robinson comes to mind in this season--not of baseball but of politics--because not only did he embody the best of America while he fought off the worst but also he always expressed a straightforward, unapologetic, sublimely corny love of country that is no longer heard in presidential-election rhetoric. "I believe in the human race," Robinson said. "I believe in the warm heart. I believe in the goodness of a free society. And I believe that the society can remain good only as long as we are willing to fight for it and to fight against whatever...
...turn hunt only for their flaws in an effort to be clever and thus noticed. There's no trick in being clever and noticed; any deft young journalist can do it, and some--encumbered by fatal cuteness, disappointment or lack of dignity--never outgrow the impulse. Talking like Jackie Robinson, or like Ronald Reagan, our last sublimely corny President, takes more self-confidence and aggressive innocence but--provided that one means what one says--it pays...