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Fred Astaire News Archives

Fred Astaire News Archives for September 2009

Sep 30, 2009 | Scotsman.com Living

Interview: Leslie Caron, dancer, actress and writer

LESLIE Caron has kissed Nureyev, danced with Astaire and Kelly, and talked film with Renoira it's no wonder Lee Randall is a little starstruck LESLIE Caron is a petite lady with an enormous a ' and dazzling a ' list of accomplishments.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Daddy-Long-Legs, Musical Movies, Leslie Caron, France, World News, Arts, Dance, Jazz

Sep 30, 2009 | WSJM AM 1400 & FM 94.9

Kathy Ireland Done Dancing, but Still 'A Big Winner'

Kathy Ireland, the third contestant to be voted off "Dancing With the Stars," said despite the early send-off she still feels "like a big winner.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Shall We Dance, Music!, Musical Movies, Jazz

Mon Sep 28, 2009

National Public Radio

Fashion, A La Mode Again At The Multiplex

Coco Before Chanel, starring Audrey Tautou, explores the early life of the iconic French designer who changed fashion history with her classic tweed suit.

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Related Topix: Audrey Tautou, Bright Star, The Last Emperor, Hip-Hop, Funny Face, Short, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Jazz, Drama Movies, Mahogany

Fri Sep 18, 2009

Providence Journal

Merkin was colorful in a black-and-white world

I asked Richard Merkin if he was into The Beatles. It was a logical question for someone whose face was featured on one of their albums.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Pop/Rock, John Lennon, New York

Wed Sep 16, 2009

Syracuse New Times

Fall In for Flicks

As daylight inevitably ebbs amid our autumnal evening skies, with fair-weather ducks bidding noisy farewells as they take it on the lam, the urge to hibernate within our cozy homes deepens.

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Related Topix: Syracuse, NY, Home, Home Listing, You Were Never Lovelier, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Jazz, Tin Pan Alley, Drama Movies

DailyGame

The Towering Inferno D-BOX Review

It's interesting to see modern technology wrap its tentacles around age-old elements, even when the "age old" element in question is just 35 years old.

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Related Topix: Thriller, The Towering Inferno, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Paul Newman, Indie, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Robert Wagner, Jazz

Fresno Bee

TV drama reveals 'alien' world of modeling

Modeling is anything but a model life. The new CW Network series "The Beautiful Life: TBL," which launches Wednesday night, portrays the profession as a weight-losing, back-stabbing, ego-destroying, modesty-ignoring, party-going, addiction-driving world where the line between success and failure is as thin as a magazine cover or as small as a size ...

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Jazz, Donald O'Connor, Arts, Ballet, Soap Opera, Comedy, San Francisco Metro

Mon Sep 14, 2009

The Modesto Bee

Tony Dovolani helps provide the fancy footwork on Dancing With the Stars'

When dancer Tony Dovolani glides through a torrid tango or hops to a lively Lindy on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" he's just emulating what he saw as a kid.

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Related Topix: Dancing With The Stars, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Comedy Movies, Music!, Drama Movies, Shall We Dance, Musical Movies, Jazz, Ginger Rogers, Arts, Ballet

Sun Sep 13, 2009

The Boston Globe

How Americans dealt with the Depression

"I talk with the authority of failure.'' When thinking about the popular culture of the 1930s, that icon of Jazz Age decadence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, rarely comes to mind.

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Related Topix: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pop/Rock, Short, Comedy Movies, 42nd Street, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Ginger Rogers, Jazz

Fri Sep 11, 2009

The Wilton Bulletin

Wilton's Jane Powell, 80 years young

Still pretty, perky, and petite, long-time Wilton resident and veteran actress Jane Powell celebrated a milestone birthday this year.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Royal Wedding, Musical Movies, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Western, Family, Drama Movies, Adventure, Jane Powell, Theater, Arts, Jazz, Elizabeth Taylor

Sun Sep 06, 2009

CTV.ca

Rio, Sydney top the world's happiest city list

Known for balmy weather, friendly locals and an iconic opera house, Sydney fared well in Anholt's survey because of its association with a popular brand--Australia. A giant European Union flag is unfurled over the facade of Barcelona's La Pedrera building, the emblematic modernist building by architect Antoni Gaudi, during celebrations for Europe ...

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Australia Travel, Sydney, Australia Travel, Travel, Spain, Comedy Movies, Flying Down to Rio, Musical Movies, Jazz

Sat Sep 05, 2009

Netscape

The worlds happiest cities

The worlds happiest cities >> Posted By gunnyreef 20 hours, 14 minutes ago in News > Ever since Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared in the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio, the world has been fascinated with Rio de Janeiro.

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Related Topix: Flying Down to Rio, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Jazz, Ginger Rogers

Thu Sep 03, 2009

Philly.com

Flickgrrl: Designing Women, Designer Darlings

Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire in "Funny Face." We go to the movies hungry for the stories.

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Related Topix: Funny Face, Short, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Audrey Hepburn, Jazz, The September Issue, A Place in the Sun, Drama Movies

Forbes

The World's Happiest Cities

Ten urban centers closely associated with unmitigated joy. Ever since Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared in the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio , the world has been fascinated with Rio de Janeiro.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Flying Down to Rio, Musical Movies, Ginger Rogers, Jazz, South America, World News, Brazil, Australia Travel, Travel

Associated Content

Top 10 Movie Musicals

In this film, Fred Astaire plays an Irishman who arrives in Rainbow valley with his daughter, Sharon, played by Petula Clark.

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Related Topix: Family, Finian's Rainbow, Musical Movies, Best of 2007, Arts, Cinema, Jazz, Petula Clark

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