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...wide range of friends and savants. The friends (wife Betsy Blair, daughter Kerry, director Stanley Donen, actress Debbie Reynolds) are neither fawning nor vengeful. The experts (biographers Clive Hirschhorn and Stephen Silverman, critics Elvis Mitchell and Jeanine Basinger) are helpful, precise and affectionate. It turns out that even Peter Wollen, the most serious film theoretician in the English language - Lacan?s brain encased in Beckett?s skull - loves Kelly with an acute enthusiasm...
...could so he did, in "On the Town," "American in Paris" and "Singin? in the Rain." These big climactic numbers didn?t always fit the tone of the story that preceded them; it was like serving Cristal at the end of a frat-house toga party. Or, as Wollen says: "They were like little islands within the rest of the film. But they were very important to him because it was a way of showing the breadth and variety of the forms of dance." Kelly finally did a whole movie in the serioso mode: "Invitation to the Dance," shot...
Directed by MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Screenplay by MARK PEPLOE, PETER WOLLEN and MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
...when peasants of the old cantons first learned from signal fires on the peaks that Habsburg rule had ended. This year as always, nearly all the day's eloquent oratory, in big cities or small hamlets, ended with the sentence from Schiller's William Tell: "Wir wollen frei sein wie die Voter waren" ("We swear we will be free as were our fathers...
...World War I, 850 officer POWs in the American camp at Richelieu (France) did not sing once during a whole year. But when they marched to the station September 1919, to return to Germany, a minority started a favorite song "Siegreich wollen wir Frankreich schlagen" ("Victorious we will beat the French...