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...that?s a trick answer. It happens that the Indian film industry called Bollywood (not the American one called Hollywood) makes the most movies per year, and that in virtually every Indian picture is a musical. Though fans of Kelly?s "On the Town," "An American in Paris" and "Singin? in the Rain" might not recognize the form, the fact is that, whether an Indian movie is a love story or a period epic or a four-hour saga about cricket, at some point people will sing and dance in dazzling, delirious production numbers. And as often as not - perhaps...
...Hollywood numbers are smartly chosen, and there?s some rare footage: of the teen Gene dancing, and of Gene in "Pal Joey," filmed surreptitiously by a fan. (The documentary also commits a mortal sin. In the middle of the single most famous shot in the Kelly oeuvre - from "Singin? in the Rain," when Gene is whirls on the rain-drenched street and the camera cranes back and up - Trachtenberg cuts to a talking head. Unforgivable! Hey, Joe, get me a tarantula...
...scenes with an old Broadway pal (actually a young one, since he was 19 at the time), Stanley Donen. Off and on, mostly on, for the next decade, Kelly and Donen would shape their film?s dances, then their dances and direction. They co-directed "On the Town," "Singin? in the Rain" and "It?s Always Fair Weather." Their work together was, in Silverman?s words, "a magical combination of Gene Kelly?s charisma and Stanley Donen?s chutzpah...
DIED. KATHLEEN FREEMAN, 82, seasoned character actress whose performances in 70 feature films (from Singin' in the Rain to Nutty Professor II), hundreds of television shows and numerous plays made her trademark jowls and agitated expression unforgettable; of lung cancer; in New York City. She gave her final, Tony-nominated performance in The Full Monty on Broadway, finishing two shows just five days before her death...
...swings above the crowd warbling Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. Ewan McGregor, as the poor writer who falls for the courtesan, is a nouveau Gene Kelly--a hunky Joe with a radiant smile, haunting the Left Bank like An American in Paris, twirling an umbrella a la Singin' in the Rain. There's something else deja vu about this pair: they have the innocence and maturity of the great old stars...