Glad to see I wasn't the only one moved to tears. Great, Great article!!! ________________________________ From: terrypearson12 <terrypearson@...>...
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colinmjarman
May 9, 2010 1:55 am
JUDITH Thanks for your thoughts on the FA quotes book(s). As the editor of the books, I would be interested in why the UK edition appeals to you more in SF. ...
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colinmjarman
May 9, 2010 1:55 am
Preston, Many thanks for the kind words about the Fred Astaire quotes book. Yes, I was equally surprised when I found so many quotations directly about Fred...
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colinmjarman
May 9, 2010 1:56 am
Terry Many thanks for the email and for buying the FA quotes book. There are no major differences between the UK and US editions except that the US version is...
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astaire@yahoogroups.com
May 9, 2010 4:07 am
Reminder from: astaire Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astaire/cal Fred's Birthday Monday May 10, 2010 All Day (This event repeats every year.) ...
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pnealjones
May 9, 2010 8:09 am
Much obliged!...
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axelrodh
May 9, 2010 7:39 pm
One of the most amusing lines was: "If Michael Jackson was a superstar, then Fred Astaire was a constallation." I'll see if I can slip that into some...
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axelrodh
May 9, 2010 8:25 pm
I went to the website that Preston recommended, and I greatly enjoyed the articulateness of many of the contributors. In one of the posts there was a link to...
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axelrodh
May 10, 2010 1:15 am
Well folks, it's almost that time again (and for those of you in Europe I guess it has already come). You know what I mean. Here are some items from the web...
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chrisbamberger
May 10, 2010 2:30 am
My thanks to Kathy Bolton for sending me the PDF of Royko's essay to post. Happy Fred Astaire's Birthday Monday, everyone. Chris...
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pnealjones
May 10, 2010 2:41 am
No, there is no new DVD issue of SILK STOCKINGS. The text of the review seems to have been written very recently, but the references describe the DVD that's...
Nice to hear that Eric Rhodes seemed to have been a nice guy. He certainly had a lengthy theatre career after he stopped doing movies. It was good to see an...
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Chris B
chrisbamberger
May 11, 2010 1:55 pm
Actress Adele Mara, who played Rita Hayworth's younger sister Lita in YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER, has died: ...
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samiskee2001
May 11, 2010 6:09 pm
In a message dated 5/11/10 4:49:23 AM, tmwctd@... writes: Erik Rhodes was a wonderful and cultured man. I was friendly with him in New York in the...
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Pat
wardicus2002
May 11, 2010 6:16 pm
I'm happy to hear that Mr. Rhodes was a nice man. I don't believe actors owe the public anything beyond a good job, but it's always nice to hear they're good...
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Michael Russell
RussellMA@...
May 11, 2010 7:30 pm
My collection includes the drafting tools used by Polglase in the 1930s and some photographs of him (all acquired from his son) as well as a letter Polglase...
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axelrodh
May 12, 2010 12:32 am
I recently saw "Meet Me in St. Louis" and when I listened to the commentary track I learned that this was Lucille Bremer's first movie role. Then YOLANDA was...
I am presently reading Mark Griffin's _A Hundred or More Hidden Things_, a bio of Minnelli recommended by a lister, and in it he intimates that Bremer's rise...
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Patty Barnhill
moose18588
May 12, 2010 2:42 pm
Meet Me in St. Louis is one of my all time favorite musicals. I love the closeness of the family. You can feel the love and support. My sister struggles with...
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chrisbamberger
May 12, 2010 4:28 pm
I find Tootie's ghoulish streak and her lies to be realistic childhood behavior, and I think those, among other things (Rose and Esther's teenage vanity and...
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Patty Barnhill
moose18588
May 12, 2010 5:24 pm
That is what I like tremendouly about this movie. It has a nice balance of love, affection, wit and humor and likeable songs. Agnes and Tootie look adorable in...
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derf_eriatsa
May 12, 2010 5:25 pm
I recently discovered the archive.org site. It has all kinds of public domain movies, books and recordings. These include FA movies Royal Wedding and Second...
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Pat
wardicus2002
May 12, 2010 5:29 pm
There was a wonderful documentary called THE MEN WHO MADE THE MOVIES produced in the 1970s by Richard Shickel that interviewed and studied several great...
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Astaire Gal
astairelady
May 12, 2010 5:57 pm
I know someone who met/interviewed Ann Miller and she did say that Lucille Bremer was Arthur Freed's, um, let's just say she used a very earthy, descriptive...
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chrisbamberger
May 12, 2010 7:20 pm
Knowing what I do of Ann Miller, I'm STILL dubious....
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axelrodh
May 13, 2010 2:04 am
Oh, I agree about Tootie's behavior being realistic. But, it just somehow does not seem to fit well (in my opinion) into a fairy world of make-believe that is...
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pnealjones
May 13, 2010 6:20 am
The late Irving Brecher's autobiography, THE WICKED WIT OF THE WEST, was published posthumously a very few years ago, and I highly recommend it. In its pages...
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pnealjones
May 13, 2010 6:23 am
It's been wonderful to see Fred's Hollywood Palace performances again, at Youtube and on DVD. Does anyone know the name of the Cy Coleman piece Fred and...
