Dozens, if not hundreds, of birthday messages + words of love to Fred on Tumblr today: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/fred+astaire The loveliest + most fitting...
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mb.belle
May 11, 2012 2:04 am
Wow, what a lot of great comments and pictures, pictures.... Thanks for linking me in. So nice to hear that people remember him so fondly. I spent some time...
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Ben Sears
berlioz53
May 11, 2012 3:37 pm
May 11, yet another birthday for Izzie Baline! Berlin wrote more films for Fred than any other performer - six altogether. In the bookstores now! The Irving...
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Jay Hopkins
hopkinsyetagain
May 11, 2012 4:57 pm
I LOVE the images that a lister posted here: http://someheresome there.tumblr. com/post/ 22800062119/ fred-astaire- celebrates- his-birthday- with-some ...
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kbolton_1
May 12, 2012 10:02 am
About your book: I read what was available on the preview at Amazon. Looks wonderful!!! I'm looking forward to being able to order. (wish it was available on a...
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Ben Sears
berlioz53
May 14, 2012 1:15 pm
Thank you! That's so sweet and it's great that you can be providing an education to your son! Ben In the bookstores now! The Irving Berlin Reader, my...
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mb.belle
May 14, 2012 5:47 pm
I was delighted to received the Bio on Fri., and I naturally had to sort of do a quick read-through over the next few days, fitting it in with everything else....
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Preston Neal
pnealjones
May 15, 2012 5:47 pm
I've been enjoying the hell out of your book for a few weeks now. I consider it Essential Reading for any fan of Fred or good music. (You've reminded me of...
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Preston Neal
pnealjones
May 15, 2012 5:52 pm
Thanks for the precis! I'm eagerly awaiting the copy I ordered last week....
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cnb@...
chrisbamberger
May 15, 2012 6:04 pm
However, if speaking technically of who wrote the most songs specifically for Fred to INTRODUCE (given that Fred sang so many Irving Berlin tunes in films that...
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Preston Neal
pnealjones
May 16, 2012 2:43 pm
SENT IN AN E-MAIL FROM A FELLOW FILM BUFF: On another front---let me pass along something that will make you feel old, but also shocked, and sad---all at the...
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mb.belle
May 16, 2012 10:12 pm
If you are talking lyrics, then that could be surprising, but true. Mercer certainly wrote a lot of them. How many? Have you got a count? But, if we are...
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mb.belle
May 16, 2012 10:20 pm
I understand your outrage at the current state of ignorance, and I agree with you that it is very sad. That's why I'm so happy that FA is still mentioned so...
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Preston Neal
pnealjones
May 16, 2012 11:31 pm
I'm not sure if I made it clear that these are not my words, I was quoting my friend. I'm well aware that "all glory is fleeting" and that fade fames with...
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Preston Neal
pnealjones
May 23, 2012 8:20 pm
I'm starting to feel like the person at a party who says something which suddenly kills the conversation -- nobody's posted anything since my last...
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Henri Etta Fair
hfair55
May 24, 2012 12:39 am
Oh how I long to see that footage. I get so frustrated with Mrs. Astaire. She's stunting his legacy not protecting it. [Non-text portions of this message have...
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tmwctd
May 27, 2012 9:30 am
Watched it for the 2nd time after a preview in Birmingham. They have streamlined it, it`s about 10 minutes shorter than before but still maybe a tad too long....
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mb.belle
May 27, 2012 9:46 pm
You're so lucky. I can't wait to see it....
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Preston Neal
pnealjones
May 31, 2012 11:53 pm
Thanks for the full, fascinating report! I'm curious, however, as to why you called that snippet of dialogue "a curiosity." I assume you -- and everybody...
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Chris B
chrisbamberger
Jun 1, 2012 2:59 pm
Have not had a chance to read the entire article yet (about Kate Riley's fabulous book on the Astaires, but I adore the way Toni Bentley writes about Astaire...
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judith williams
judithleew
Jun 1, 2012 4:55 pm
Hi, Chris !  Really enjoyed the whole thing. Thanks a lot !  Judith W. ... From: Chris B <cnb@...> Subject: [astaire] Oh, MAN... To:...
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Emily
roseytrebles
Jun 1, 2012 5:19 pm
Lovely article! Thanks so much for passing it on! ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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bheretical@...
bheretical2003
Jun 1, 2012 6:29 pm
Talk about oh MAN! I swooned after I read the first three paragraphs. This, in paticular, is a brilliant bit of writing: "...his modesty after brilliance his...
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tmwctd
Jun 1, 2012 8:52 pm
Because a real life quote from one of the two actors in this movie was squeezed into the stage show. Or, in other words, Dale Tremonts speaks as Ginger...
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Astaire Gal
astairelady
Jun 2, 2012 2:21 am
I must agree and say that I would put this in the "cheap stunt" category and find it unfunny and distracting. ... From: astaire@yahoogroups.com...
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Preston Neal
pnealjones
Jun 2, 2012 6:40 am
I see, thanks. I guess it's a matter of semantics, but I wouldn't have called it curious so much as simply "an in-joke." Whether it was funny or not, that's...
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tmwctd
Jun 2, 2012 6:16 pm
This review was worth a full page in the International Herald Tribune so I was able to read it in a cafe in Vienna today.. Bernd...
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judith williams
judithleew
Jun 4, 2012 4:06 pm
Hi, Bernd!  Maybe you can find a copy of the June ATLANTIC MONTHLY at that cafe.  Mag has a great, sorta longish, piece on P J Wodehouse with an...
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tmwctd
Jun 4, 2012 5:07 pm
Thanks a lot for the heads-up, but the cafe is not that international unfortunaely. Will look for a web presence though......
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tmwctd
Jun 5, 2012 5:59 am
And I´ve found it already, very interesting article! Thanks again!...
