Astaire

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• She got nothing, for instance, out of the juxtaposition of "roaming" and "Romeo" in the verse of Irving Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a neat half-rhyme on which Fred Astaire for whom Berlin wrote the song never failed to put the sliest of spins. It Ain't (Always) That Serious
• TCM has two of the best: Double Indemnity (tonight, 8 ET/5 PT), a seminal double-cross film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (in a far cry from his My Three Sons days); and Swing Time (10 ET/7 PT), which may just be the best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, and is the only one to address hard economic times. Critic's Corner Wednesday
• Whether performing on stage or off, Astaire, like Marshall / Monescu and other dandified leading men, created an aesthetic of performance and fastidious elegance.
• Astaire, a professional dancer from the age of 7, did all of his own choreography, and he was as exacting about corrections as the most persnickety repetiteur.
• From the barmily romantic ‘Just Like Fred Astaire’ to the anthemic ‘We're Going To Miss You ’, this is indulgent, swaggering and even survives Sinead O'Connor on ‘Vervaceous’.
• None of the turmoil that routinely attends film-star existence ever seemed to visit the Astaire household.
• A surprising number of Astaire's jazziest dances, Mr. Decker points out, were not based on existing songs but instead set to instrumentals that had been, essentially, composed as musical complement to Astaire's own original ideas. He Just Had to Move
• Having fallen in love with Astaire's cardsharp, she had hoped to marry him, until the fiancee from his past showed up. Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead
• Spielberg told Entertainment Weekly: "Just as there will never be another Fred Astaire or Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley, there will never be anyone comparable to Michael Jackson.
• No doubt in the advertisements the tiny Fred Astaires and Ginger Rogerses were redrawn as boppers. PROSPECT HILL