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...Thug chic has come to movies in the extravagantly buff and tattooed torso of Vin Diesel. Looking like the spawn of Otto Preminger and Mike Myers' Dr. Evil, Diesel went from 0 to 60 in last year's cheapie auto-mania epic, The Fast and the Furious. Now he's back in an even more rickety star vehicle. Full of implausible chase scenes (Ever go skateboarding ahead of an avalanche?), director Rob Cohen's epic is pretty inept, while lacking the idiot intensity that makes for a classically bad movie. Basically a butch La Femme Nikita, XXX has extreme-sports...
They were all dancers. James Cagney propelled himself through space like a bullet or a bull terrier, his torso a few seconds ahead of his legs; anyone without a dancer's equilibrium would have fallen on his face. Henry Fonda was just the opposite: a triumph of convex geometry, his thin body a question mark that ambled at Stepin Fetchit pace toward a girl or a cause. Katharine Hepburn seemed always on the ascendant, scaling the invisible ramp of her own confidence. But of all the Golden Age Hollywood stars it was Fred Astaire who defined screen movement...
...most - the pioneer who was also the supreme refiner. Tap dancing had traditionally been all legwork, with the upper body stationary (think Gene Kelly). Astaire, as his teacher Ned Wayburn noted, "was the first American tap dancer to consciously employ the full resources of his arms, hands and torso for visual ornamentation." Then he integrated ballet and ballroom dance into his style. He wasn't grounded, in the old tap fashion; he floated, soared like Nijinsky. The mood of his dances also went beyond the comic energy of tap; his were stories of romance won and lost. Add to this...
Before a packed theater in Hollywood, a nude blond totters onto the stage tied up and blindfolded. A hush falls over the audience of several hundred as she begins to flex her arms and whip her torso around like a bronco, until eventually the rope loosens and her hands break free. She sheds the blindfold and slips out of her bonds to reveal a black thong. She glares icily, turns around and slaps her butt. The crowd--especially the half of it that's female--gives...
...went to Britain, where he lived for the rest of the 30s. In a quartet of modest, engaging films, Robeson would sing, act a little, show off his burly torso, flash that intoxicating smile-and, uniquely for a black actor, get top billing above whites. He played African kings, or ordinary Joes who somehow take over tribes, in "King Solomon's Mines," "Sanders of the River," "Song of Freedom," "Jericho"; all tapped into Robeson's natural nobility. As Roland Young says in Solomon, "I always thought that fella had a spot of royal blood...