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...looked impossibly easy. It was not: six weeks of rehearsal before every film, dozens of "takes," worn-out shoes, bleeding feet. Even now, as Astaire looks back on the Fred-and-Ginger films from the vantage point of his one-story marble palace in Beverly Hills, he likens the experience to "running the four-minute mile for six months. I'd lose 15 lbs. during rehearsal," he told TIME'S Martha Smilgis. "But then you'd get in a winning groove-a kind of show-business dream sequence where you can't do anything wrong...
Over lunch, Rouse expands on his philosophy of urban development: "We have lived so long with grim, congested, worn-out inner cities and sprawling, cluttered outer cities, that we have subconsciously come to accept them as inevitable and unavoidable. Deep down in our national heart is a lack of conviction that cities can be beautiful, humane, and truly responsive to the needs and yearnings of our people...
From the rusting spans of its once proud bridges to the leaking sewers beneath its streets, America is structurally unsound. Highways are crumbling. Avenues are cracking. Trains jump their worn-out tracks. Coal ships languish outside overburdened ports. While the U. S. has the technological prowess to blast a magnificent space shuttle into orbit and land it gently back on earth, it has failed to care properly for its most important public works...
...about 9,000 inhabitants, were miffed, but some weren't. Glanting took time off from work, flew to Carroll, and with the enthusiastic help of the town's Chamber of Commerce, invested the "pantheon"-a small concrete structure in a cornfield-with a rusty barbecue grill, some worn-out tires, and pictures of such dull heroes as William Bendix, Hugh Beaumont (the father in Leave It to Beaver), Alan Hale Jr. (the skipper in Gilligan 's Island) and Walter Mondale...
Perhaps, that vaguely kinky thrill is gone. Without the shock of first acquaintance, Renato and Albin seem shallow and Molinaro's placing them in a worn-out stock situation makes them all the more dull. Nevertheless, Molinaro and United Artists seem determined to cash in on the success of the original (the highest grossing foreign film ever released in the U.S.A.) and are supposedly contemplating a La Cage Aux Folles III, Yes, gay couples can behave as ridiculously as straight couples, but how much longer do they expect us to laugh about...