Word: tap
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...calls a meeting on the porch of his suite at the Chateau Marmont with Michael Stipe, Quincy Jones, Bobby Shriver (the record-producing and fund-raising son of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver) and Jamie Drummond, DATA's director. It's a new-ideas meeting, and Bono hopes to tap some of the music industry's sharpest philanthropic minds to raise public awareness for DATA's core issues. "Don't send money. You already have," announces Stipe, trying out copy for a debt-relief mass-mailing postcard. The room loves...
...documentary efficiently, handsomely lays out the Kelly story. In brief: Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh on August 23, 1912. He was already a teenager when his brother Fred, four years younger, taught him to tap dance. The family opening two dancing schools, tutoring the locals and occasionally serving as a "dance doctor" to vaudevillians passing through town. Even when he was green, even with his loving folks, Gene could drive a hard bargain. Since he was the driving force of the family enterprise, he fought for his name above the title - Gene Kelly Studios of Dance...
...shared a dance number with Kelly in "Anchors Aweigh": the sequence took eight weeks for Sinatra to learn and perform. But with that industry and application, young men could copy the standard Kelly posture: torso erect, legs swerving as if jellified. That?s the legacy of Kelly?s teenage tap-dancing. Tap has just that contradictory posture: Buster Keaton from the waist up, Jim Carrey from the waist down. The form has a built-in irony, one half of the body counterpointing and commenting on the other half...
...Fred had an ethereal buoyancy, the ability to walk on air, and dance on it, and not make a big deal of it. Gene had gravity. His power would burrow up from the floor, through his powerful thighs, up to his strong, sloping shoulders; and he?d hit those tap steps hard, nailing them, pounding them into the floor so hard they almost left permanent depression marks in the wood. You saw the grinding work, as much as the fun, in Kelly?s favorite maneuvers. Some of them - like the chop step with straight, churning arms...
...with loud, though not blaring, rock music and a jukebox. Patrons can order food and drinks on both floors. A big lobster tank immediately inside the front door indicates the type of food served here: classic New England pub grub. Any one of the 15 or so brews on tap (most are around $4.50) perfectly complements the greasy beer fries ($2.95). The casual establishment, which has been thriving for over 50 years, is a model no-thrills, no-frills, no-bullshit type of place. At Charlie’s Kitchen, the size and complexity of your tattoos indicate just...