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Wednesday Nov 18 | City Newspaper

Holiday Guide '09: Behind "White Christmas"

Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" has remained a holiday classic in spite of - or perhaps because of - its melancholy undertones.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Comedy Movies, White Christmas, Musical Movies, Holiday Inn, Bing Crosby, Jazz, Rochester, NY, Entertainment

Sat Nov 14, 2009

NPR

George Gershwin (center) with brother Ira (right) and Fred Astaire

George Gershwin with brother Ira and Fred Astair on the Hollywood set of the musical Shall We Dance , 1937.

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Related Topix: Classical, Gershwin, George Gershwin, Comedy Movies, Music!, Drama Movies, Shall We Dance, Musical Movies, Jazz, Biography Movies, Rhapsody in Blue

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Hugh Hewitt

The transcript of our conversation is here

Mark Steyn on the grace and work ethic of Fred Astaire, the arrogance and dithering of Barack Obama, and the fecklessness of the Congressional Republicans Friday, November 13, 2009 HH: We begin this Thursday as we do every Thursday when we are lucky with Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, Drama Movies, Shall We Dance, Musical Movies, Jazz, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Arts, Dance

Las Vegas Review Journal

Movie Review: "2012"

Doom and Gloom: Apocalyptic '2012' offers little more than special effects CAROL CLING MORE COLUMNS Carol Cling's Movie Minute REVIEW "2012" 158 minutes PG-13; intense disaster sequences, profanity Grade: C- at multiple locations DEJA VIEW The end of the world as we know it? While "2012" presents a slam-bang view, these titles offer alternative ...

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Related Topix: 2012, Boat Disaster, On the Beach, Drama Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, Jazz

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Philly.com

Flickgrrl: The Great Debate: Fred Astaire v. Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire rehearsing a number for The Ziegfeld Follies . They are thesis and antithesis.

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Related Topix: Ziegfeld Follies, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Singin' in the Rain, Follow the Fleet, Easter Parade, Adventure, On the Town, Jazz

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Britain's art deco icons? The BBC should get its history straight

BBC4's recent series on 1930s architecture looks at Britain's art-deco history through neon-tinted glasses.

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Related Topix: Lancashire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Merseyside County, England, Cheshire County, England, Jazz, Ginger Rogers, Greater London County, England, Essex County, England, Surrey County, England,

Tue Nov 10, 2009

WNYC-AM New York

Musical Moments in Love and Heartbreak: A Very Incomplete List

1932: Cole Porter, "Night and Day" Written for the Broadway musical "The Gay Divorcee," this American songbook favorite has been recorded by everyone from Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra to Sergio Mendes and U2.

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Related Topix: Jazz, The Flamingos, R-N-B, The Shangri-Las, Oldies

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Chattanooga Times Free Press

On TV

Executive producer and lifelong jazz enthusiast Clint Eastwood presents "Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me" , a profile and appreciation of one of the most prolific lyricists of the 20th century.

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Related Topix: Johnny Mercer, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Television

Sat Nov 07, 2009

J.B. Spins

On-Stage: Love, Linda

Everyone from Fred Astaire to Charlie Parker has performed the music of Cole Porter.

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Related Topix: Charlie Parker, Jazz, Cole Porter, Theater, Arts

Thu Nov 05, 2009

The Union

Silver Screen jumps on 'The Band Wagon'

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

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Family, The Band Wagon, Musical Movies, Jazz, Nanette Fabray, Cyd Charisse

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Pennlive.com

'Finian's Rainbow' theater review: How are things in Missitucky? Weird

After 62 years, multiple revivals and a ghastly movie version directed by the fledgling Francis Coppola, "Finian's Rainbow" can't deliver many surprises.

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Related Topix: Theater, Finian's Rainbow, Arts, Family, Musical Movies, Jazz, Manufacturing, Automakers, R and B, Fine, NY, Ballet, Entertainment

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Arkansas Online

THEATER Young thespians show off fruits of summer labor

Nicole Capri Bauer compares Follie Holidays, the Arkansas Repertory Theatrea s latest annual production by young performers, to the 1942 movie Holiday Inn that starred Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.

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Related Topix: Arkansas, Holiday Inn, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Bing Crosby, Jazz

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Plymouth Evening Herald

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THREE years ago another "backstage" musical had its European premiere at the Theatre Royal and enjoyed sell-out performances.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, White Christmas, Musical Movies, Life, Holidays, Christmas, Blue Skies, Holiday Inn, Bing Crosby, Jazz

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Examiner.com

Classic films in focus: Carefree

DVD cover art - Turner Home Ent. The name, Carefree , pretty much sums up what you need to know about this romantic comedy featuring classic movie favorites Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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Related Topix: Carefree, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman, Drama Movies, Ginger Rogers, Jazz, Ralph Bellamy, Wedding

Detroit Free Press

Exploring Avedon's impact on fashion photography

An exuberant snap and visceral pop pulsate through much of the best American vernacular art.

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Related Topix: Photography, Arts, Jazz, Frank Sinatra, Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro

Sat Oct 17, 2009

Examiner.com

Rita Hayworth ~ 91st anniversary of actress' birthday

Rita Hayworth was a film actress and dancer who attained fame during the 1940s not only as one of the era's top stars, but also as the era's greatest sex symbol, most notably in Gilda .

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Related Topix: Pal Joey, Thriller, Drama Movies, Fire Down Below, Action Movies, Adventure, Musical Movies, You Were Never Lovelier, Comedy Movies, You'll Never Get Rich, Rita Hayworth, Jazz

Thu Oct 15, 2009

USA Today

New on DVD: Original 'Stepfather,' 'Stop Making Sense'

A landmark rock documentary and one of the first standout roles for Lost 's Terry O'Quinn are among this week's platinum picks on DVD.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Thriller, Drama Movies, The Stepfather, Terry O'Quinn, Talking Heads, Pop/Rock, Comedy Movies, Royal Wedding, Musical Movies, Jazz, Arts, Dance, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Oct 11, 2009

Playbill

Astaire Looks to the Rainbow

The start of previews for Finian's Rainbow brings to mind Francis Ford Coppola's 1968 film version, widely perceived as a failure.

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Related Topix: Family, Finian's Rainbow, Musical Movies, Jazz

Washington Times

VAULTS: Dancing duo ideal in 'Divorcee'

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were cast as show business colleagues in "Flying Down to Rio," the first of the nine RKO musicals that teamed them in the 1930s.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Flying Down to Rio, Musical Movies, Jazz, Short, 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Drama Movies, Ginger Rogers, Gene Raymond

Fri Oct 09, 2009

Santa Barbara Independent

New John Caird Musical Daddy Long Legs Premieres at Rubicon

If you're like most Americans, the title - Daddy Long Legs ' rings an extremely distant bell.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, Jazz, Leslie Caron, Theater, Vocal, Charles Dickens

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