Cyd Charisse News

Silver Screen Classic Movie Series continues with the musical comedy "The Band Wagon," from 1953.

A Canal Plus, Roche Prods. presentation, in association with Arte France, YLE, SBS-TV Australia, BeTV, in collaboration with RTBF-Television Belge, with the participation of Centre National de la Cinematographie, with the support of Procirep, Angoa.

Oct. 2, 2009 COMMENTARY: Be Kind. Rewind. By Shelly Reuben After recently watching Brigadoon on TV, I remembered that just over a year ago, Cyd Charisse, the long-stemmed beauty who swirled her skirts and flashed her go-on-forever legs in all of those great MGM musicals, died.

MENTION Brigadoon and Scots will react in different ways, few of them positive. They will grumble about how it's made us appear too romantic, twee and kilted in the eyes of the worlda that its depiction of a land which awakes once a century sums up our indecisivenessa that you need sunglasses to endure its garish plaids and glistening heathera that ...

Sarah Crompton says that dancing is in everyone's blood, if only we could admit it to ourselves.

Exceptionalism: Americaa s right to rule and order the world The new a oeisma was Americanism, an ideology whose distinction is its denial that it is an ideology.

Exceptionalism: Americaa s right to rule and order the world The new a oeisma was Americanism, an ideology whose distinction is its denial that it is an ideology.

Exceptionalism: Americaa s right to rule and order the world The new a oeisma was Americanism, an ideology whose distinction is its denial that it is an ideology.

Turning movies into stage shows is done all the time, as evidenced recently by "9 to 5 the Musical," "Shrek the Musical" and, of course, "The Producers," which was first a movie, then a smash Broadway musical and then a less-than-successful movie musical.

"Singin" in the Rain" is a movie that's got legs, but in Cyd Charisse's case, the camera revealed too much.

Ogunquit Performing Arts concludes the eighth season of The Classic Film Series with "The Band Wagon" at 7 p.m. Wednesday May 13, at the Great Hall of the Dunaway Center.

THE COMMON TAKE on the dancer-actress Cyd Charisse , who died at 86 last June, is that she was a hell of a dancer.

Ogunquit Performing Arts concludes the eighth season of The Classic Film Series with "The Band Wagon" at 7 p.m. Wednesday May 13, at the Great Hall of the Dunaway Center.