Hi, everybody. I was really amazed when Jay said Fred said John Wayne copied his walk. The books I've read about the Duke (John Wayne's America being the...
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kscherling@xxxx.xxxxx...
Jul 23, 1998 2:33 pm
From: "Jay Hopkins" <jhopkins@...> I am "thrilled"; on the rare occasions that I notice that the forelock in Freddie's rug drops across his...
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kscherling@xxxx.xxxxx...
Jul 23, 1998 2:33 pm
From: "Jay Hopkins" <jhopkins@...> I am "thrilled"; on the rare occasions that I notice that the forelock in Freddie's rug drops across his...
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kscherling@xxxx.xxxxx...
Jul 23, 1998 2:19 pm
~Kerstin: I was going through this Astiare book in the library and I found this ADORABLE picture of Fred teaching Fred Jr. to dance. It was so sweet!!! (snip) ...
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kscherling@xxxx.xxxxx...
Jul 23, 1998 7:10 pm
From: "Ryan Bottoms" <ryan_bottoms@...> Hi, everybody. I was really amazed when Jay said Fred said John Wayne copied his walk. The books I've read...
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Jay Hopkins
jhopkins@xxxx.xxx.xxx...
Jul 24, 1998 1:05 am
... Here's the exact quote upon which I based my comment about John Wayne copying Astaire walk: In 1987, Michael Parkinson, commenting on his BBC talk show...
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Claudia Calhoun
claudia@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 24, 1998 2:40 am
Cary grant wore one, right? I'm no authority on hairpieces, but I thought it was pretty obvious he was wearing a rug in his later movis. ... "To hell with the...
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Jay Hopkins
jhopkins@xxxx.xxx.xxx...
Jul 24, 1998 1:50 pm
... I suspect that some might prefer that we'd drop this topic; but, no, I do not believe that Cary Grant ever wore one. (I would be shocked if told...
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kscherling@xxxx.xxxxx...
Jul 24, 1998 4:02 pm
Jay wrote: (snip) I told Astaire that, as a kid, I used to imitate two walks: his and John Wayne's. I then gave a demonstration. He told me that Wayne had told...
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BRANDI SMITH
brsmith@xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Jul 24, 1998 5:48 pm
Hey all you Fred-o-philes, Just to start a new topic, and I'm generally curious. Have any of you noticed that Fred sometimes used the same dance routines in ...
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Ryan Bottoms
ryan_bottoms@xxxxxxx....
Jul 24, 1998 8:50 pm
... any of ... in ... Skies." ... dances ... routine ... "Heatwave"; ... style. ... Hey, I just read about that in "Astaire Dancing" by John Mueller. He even...
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Jay Hopkins
jhopkins@xxxx.xxx.xxx...
Jul 26, 1998 5:02 pm
I am a naive man when it comes to the question of "what dance did Astaire repeat?" However, I do know that Mr. Astaire objected to any form of self-repetition....
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Jay Hopkins
jhopkins@xxxx.xxx.xxx...
Jul 27, 1998 5:55 am
I am currently watching a Fred Astaire film which was recently maligned in these parts: The Pleasure of His Company. I maintain that it is a grand film. Oh so...
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juliet007
juliet007@...
Jul 27, 1998 8:40 pm
... Did you watch it on cable? I have been looking for it and I think Jon is right; it is not available on home video. Cheerio, Dale Tremont aka Fiona ...
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SHAMP00CAT@xxx.xxxx
Jul 27, 1998 8:37 pm
Was that the film just on AMC last night? The one where he tries to stop his daughter's wedding? ~Kerstin...
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Kathleen M. Miritello
miritell@xx.xxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 27, 1998 11:45 pm
... I don't recall noticing a resemblance between the two numbers Brandi mentioned, but there were certainly "gestures"; that Fred used over and over. Someone...
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kscherling@xxxx.xxxxx...
Jul 23, 1998 7:16 pm
Okay, so I pretty much figured that Fred wore a hairpiece becuase I saw the documentary "Change Partners" and in the clip they showed of him dancing for...
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seltab@xxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
seltab@xxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
Jul 28, 1998 12:54 am
dear Fi, yup, PLEASURE/Co was on AMC last night, i saw parts of it, as much as i could. not only was Fred superb, Debbie reynolds was a treat. if you want, i...
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Jay Hopkins
jhopkins@xxxx.xxx.xxx...
Jul 31, 1998 3:29 pm
In the interest of generating some discussion, I wish to briefly share my opinion on the final RKO Astaire-Rogers teaming, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle...
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Claudia Calhoun
claudia@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 31, 1998 5:54 pm
For lack of a better word (though this one is appropriate), I thought THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE stunk. It wasn't the deviation fron the "top hat and...
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Patricia Carley
pcarley@xxxx.xxxx
Jul 31, 1998 7:20 pm
... liked. ... died, I ... I don't want to be glib or anything, but I'm not sure that the movie could've ended any other way, since Vernon Castle in fact died...
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Jay Hopkins
jhopkins@xxxx.xxx.xxx...
Jul 31, 1998 7:31 pm
... In retrospect, I wish that the "final" official image of Astaire and Rogers had, in fact, been the wistful, ghostly dance in "Castles," as the two dreamily...
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Nancy Paulette
nanceoir@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 31, 1998 8:43 pm
ARGH!!! I feel so inadequate! There are so many movies that I need to see! Of the four that have been mentioned in this particular discussion (Top Hat,...
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BRANDI SMITH
brsmith@xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Jul 31, 1998 9:13 pm
There's a cheaper way to see them. Get Turner Classic Movies, if possible. This next month they're showing several Fred films. American Movie Classics is too....
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SHAMP00CAT@xxx.xxxx
Jul 31, 1998 10:07 pm
There also is another easy way. One of the reasons I've seen alot of classic movies (besides AMC) is the library. I don't know about where you live, but in S....
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Kathleen M. Miritello
miritell@xx.xxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 1, 1998 1:40 am
... In the Bob Thomas biography, "Astaire: The Man, The Dancer," he quotes a columnist named Sidney Skolsky who wrote the following "intimate"; information on...
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Claudia Calhoun
claudia@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 1, 1998 3:56 am
Stating a fact isn't being glib. I agree, THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE definitely could not have had a happy ending. I just thought the unfortunate ...
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Claudia Calhoun
claudia@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 1, 1998 4:25 am
I looked it up, and A FAMILY UPSIDE DOWN stars Helen Hayes and Fred as an "elderly couple who become dependent on their grown children". Fred won an Emmy for...
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Claudia Calhoun
claudia@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 1, 1998 4:26 am
I looked it up, and A FAMILY UPSIDE DOWN stars Helen Hayes and Fred as an "elderly couple who become dependent on their grown children". Fred won an Emmy for...
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Jay Hopkins
jhopkins@xxxx.xxx.xxx...
Aug 1, 1998 4:36 am
... Perhaps. It was teased with (the fact that the Fred character died) thorough the latter half of the film. If I were a clinical reviewer, I would object to...
