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Cyd Charisse is Dancing Up in Heaven

I'm not the most knowledgeable man when it comes to dance, but I'm at least a little familiar with Cyd Charisse. As everyone should be. Next to Ginger Rogers, she was possibly the most iconic female dancer in film history. Even those of us ...

Vintage Image of the Day: Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse

Am I cheating on All Boy Week by posting this still from the "Lullaby of Broadway" sequence from Singing in the Rain, of Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse? No, not really. None of Gene Kelly's female dance partners were ever really able to ...

Scenes We Love: The Band Wagon

We have television to thank for a serious dance renaissance. TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars have introduced a new generation to the joys of the samba, the waltz, and the quickstep, while High School Musical ...

RIP: Reel Important People -- June 23, 2008

Dody Goodman (1915-2008) - Comedienne, Actress - Played "Blanche", the principal's secretary in Grease and Grease 2 and Tom Hanks' absent-minded secretary in Splash and Splash, Too (in which Hanks was replaced by Todd Waring). She also appears ...

Richard von Busack's After Images: It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

Image from legs.free.fr The word "sour" is often used to describe It's Always Fair Weather, the 1955 MGM wide-screen musical at long last released on DVD. Pauline Kael described this film's tone as "a delayed hangover...sour." In ...

The (Mostly) Indie Film Calendar: Fests Aplenty, and Hippies. So Many Hippies.

After a brief hiatus, The (Mostly) Indie Film Calendar is back, offering a round-up of what's happening beyond the multiplexes all across America. If you know of something indie-related happening near you -- a local festival, a series of classic ...

RIP: Reel Important People -- March 19, 2007

Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007) - Author whose autobiographical novel about the French Resistance Ils Partiront Dans L'Ivresse was made into Lucie Aubrac. She died March 14, in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. (IMDb) Herbert Asmondi (1925-2007) - German ...