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...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...
...little of it. But Kelly?s most secure achievements are the brighter, more intimate pieces, like the one in "Summer Stock" with a squeaky floor board and a newspaper folio; finally Gene tears the paper into two, four, six, eight pieces - with his feet. It was in these solo "stunt" numbers that Kelly and Astaire seemed to compete with each other most explicitly; each invented ever-more outlandish and amazing virtuoso bits with props and especially film tricks. Gene dances with his shadow self ("Cover Girl") or with Jerry the cartoon mouse ("Anchors Aweigh"). Fred dances...
...real miracle on ice happened last week, when Australian Steven Bradbury, 28, won his country's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal. With only one lap to go in the men's short track speed skating 1,000-m final, Bradbury, who'd never had a world-class solo victory, was trailing far behind the other four skaters. Then the pack crashed and Bradbury cruised past the carnage from worst to first. "I was like, 'Hang on a minute, I think I just won,'" Bradbury told Time. "I'm probably the luckiest gold medalist in the world." Luck had nothing...
...After this smooth opening, Frankie switched instruments and tempos, kicking into sizzling Latin mode with a cut from his new album A.S., dedicated to Arturo Sandoval. Here the rhythm section began to show its chops. The percussionists (drum and conga players) performed a rocking and driving solo that got the previously staid audience vibrating in their seats. The pianist—playing on a Yamaha with a sound as bright as its polished finish—thumped out a series of chromatic arpeggios that got the audience pumping. But the peak was naturally Frankie’s sharp and tuneful...
Bronson took a five year absence from the art world, as he reclaimed his identity and artistic voice. The show at MIT, his first solo exhibition in New England, presents his current work, pieces from the collaborative and earlier solo work. All are centered on the larger themes of the formation of personal identity within the cyclic processes of life and death...