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...each show also goes in, at least figuratively, with a military escort. The producers are "casting" their shows and say they have final cut, though they will screen episodes for the military to ensure they don't give away secrets. But Washington can pull the plug anytime. And however well done the series are, they could become, for lack of comparable journalistic access, the most vivid, complete and lasting images of the conflict for many Americans while, say, misdirected military strikes vanish into...
...SCREEN GENE...
...American in Paris," Reynolds in "Singin? in the Rain" (both were 19 when the films were shot), Charisse in "Brigadoon." As Schickel notes: "There is no Ginger Rogers linked immortally to Kelly?s name, and that?s no accident. For he was a solipsist who did not share the screen easily with anyone. Suspiciously good at playing hammy, self-serving show folks ... he occasionally made you wonder: Is he exercising egocentricity or satirizing...
...Kelly reminds me of any modern star, it?s George Clooney: a rugged Irish-American, an intense competitor, a man?s man most at ease with other man?s men. That was certainly true of the on-screen Gene, with the manly bonding of "On the Town," "Fair Weather" and "The Three Musketeers." Says Andre Previn, who wrote the "Fair Weather" music: "Gene always did like to have a trio, himself and two other men, two other fellas for him to play off, who could dance and sing - if possible, not quite as well...
...achieving the nonchalant masterpiece of "Singin? in the Rain" - a greatness that, for once in his career, never revealed whatever agony went into it - gave Kelly immediate and sustaining joy. At one of the many tributes he received late in his life, he said of his life on the screen: "That?s what you do up there. You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams...