How To Use Astaire In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Whether performing on stage or off, Astaire, like Marshall / Monescu and other dandified leading men, created an aesthetic of performance and fastidious elegance.
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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.
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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’.
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None of the turmoil that routinely attends film-star existence ever seemed to visit the Astaire household.
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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
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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
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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.
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No doubt in the advertisements the tiny Fred Astaires and Ginger Rogerses were redrawn as boppers.
PROSPECT HILL
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It is said hoofer Fred Astaire threw his new custom made fine cut English suits against the wall repeatedly to "knock the newness out of them".
Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed
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The dapper sophisticate, Fred Astaire, once noted: ‘The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.’
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Fred Astaire plays an aging hoofer looking for a comeback on Broadway.
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The best dance sequence is probably the first, when Hayworth matches Astaire step-for step in a difficult routine.
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In Astaire's extraordinarily complex ‘Bojangles of Harlem,’ he dances by himself, with a proliferation of chorines, and finally with three massive rear-projection shadows of himself.
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He has this lovely pixie body and whips off complicated tap routines in the Astaire and Gene Kelly styles - amazing.
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Around the same time that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were swinging their way into America's hearts with a snappy new American approach to movie musical comedy, another musical movie couple, Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, made a huge success bringing to the screen and enlivening a dying European tradition of sentimental musical romance we call operetta.
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Astaire and Rogers came to movies from vaudeville and Broadway, where they had to Americanize their names imagine a dance team called Austerlitz and McMath!
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She actually did dance with Astaire - but to her great regret, only once, in Easter Parade.
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They encounter a street that rises in front of them like a sheer rockface and, bracing a foot against it first, like Fred Astaire dancing around the walls in Royal Wedding, they proceed to walk straight upwards.
Inception
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She starred in famous Hollywood musicals alongside the great dancers Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
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If you’d ever wanted to glide across the dance floor with a larger, wryer Fred Astaire, Godfrey was your man.
Silver Zombie
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Yet it's fun to hear the boogie-woogie and swing music of the period, which inspires Astaire to some great double-time tap routines.
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Henrietta Twycross-Martin rightly compares it to a Fred Astaire movie.
2008 November 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Can you imagine that dainty, fussbudget of a milquetoast Astaire as a sailor?
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Astaire was famous for incorporating a strangely elegant mix of tap and ballroom.
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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.
March 2006
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One dancer who combines both kinds of performance is Shaun Parry, who teaches ballroom and swing at the Fred Astaire studios.
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Fred Astaire's attire, in his RKO musicals of the 1930s, was always delicately and meticulously designed with performance in mind.
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Bolshoi Ballet before signing on this year with New York City Ballet, skillfully plays on the Baryshnikov trademark - a modernity that winks at the past, recalls the virtuosic ease of Fred Astaire and is never less than hip.
Undefined
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At first, the image of Astaire trying to acclimate to the unusual steps of Indian dance is humorous.
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Astaire 1899-1987 couldn't stand to think of himself as the embodiment of terpsichorean romance or a pin-up boy for love-starved shopgirls.
He Just Had to Move
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It's the same story recently retold in The Devil Wears Prada, though Anne Hathaway is a modern woman who priggishly rejects the temptations offered by Meryl Streep, whereas Hepburn, romanced by Astaire with the help of some Cole Porter songs, happily consents to be beautiful rather than brainy.
The big picture: Paris, 1956 – Audrey Hepburn on the set of Funny Face
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While more lavish praise tends to be heaped on heels, fans of flat shoes get just as excited about a delicate ballerina or a light-as-Astaire jazz shoe.
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Watch how she playfully matches Astaire's footwork, much to his delight.
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In the 30s perhaps one of every three films - and I mean not just the Busby Berkeley and Astaire-Rogers musicals, but westerns, weepies, Marx Brothers farces - had original songs.
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For example, Mike and I loved to re-create dance steps that we watched from the golden age of Hollywood—moves perfected by Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
True You
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Of course, no amount of tightfistedness could damage Astaire's most important legacy.
The Sultan of Suave
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Astaire partnered Rogers
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It's recommended for Astaire and Coppola completists, students of the cultural history of race, fans of the Great American Songbook, and Petula Clark groupies.
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In his lifetime, Berlin supplied the score for 19 films, six of them starring Fred Astaire.
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Brian Fisher turned bounding leaps into corkscrewing descents and ended them in a perfect Fred Astaire pose.
