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Dancin' and singin' in the streets? Terrific. Just as it has been since Gene Kelly and friends pioneered the idea. A production number in a glamorous jewelry store--all sinuous chorus kids, wowing us with their giddy athleticism? Absolutely. It puts us in touch with the long-lost silliness of movie musicals. A romantic pas de deux on the banks of the Seine? Yes. And could we have seconds on that...
...only five congressional districts, Mississippi packs a good deal of political wollop. There is also drama: a party-switching incumbent in the Fourth, an open race in the Third, and two African American firsts--Danny Covington in the Second and Kevin Antoine in the Fourth. Politicians here aren't singin' the blues...
...Anchors Aweigh). He danced on roller skates and garbage-can lids (It's Always Fair Weather). And then, of course, there was that umbrella, that downpour, that bepuddled street and that befuddled cop, out of which he and Stanley Donen, his creative partner in all these enterprises, created Singin' in the Rain's signature sequence--and one of the movies' most privileged moments...
BEVERLY HILLS: Gene Kelly, all-American dancer, choreographer and actor, best known for his joyous dance routine in "Singin' in the Rain", died in his sleep today at the age of 83 in Beverly Hills. TIME's Richard Schickel remembers Kelly for his "American flair, a robustness that hadn't been a part of movie dancing before." Often compared with Fred Astaire, a more romantic dancer, Kelly brought a unique athleticism and an earthy romanticism to movie dancing. He had very high aspirations for dance in the movies and brought innovations such as the 1945 film "Anchors Aweigh", where...
...wasn't it a wonderful life? It sure looks swell on TV. You'll see the infant Beatles in matching leather outfits (Lennon: "We looked like four Gene Vincents, or tried to"). Lennon talks of his love for Elvis--"a guy with long, greasy hair wigglin' his ass and singin' Hound Dog." Their long slog to the top (John and Paul met on July 6, 1957, so that by the time the Beatles hit the U.S. in 1964, their career together was already half over) gets a brisk treatment, lighting for but a moment on the specters of Stu Sutcliffe...