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Always Look on the Bright Side
I n that most poignant of Woody Allen's movies, The Purple Rose of Cairo , Mia Farrow's character represented millions of actual Americans who sought solace from the travails of the Great Depression by escaping ...
Always Look on the Bright Side
I n that most poignant of Woody Allen's movies, The Purple Rose of Cairo , Mia Farrow's character represented millions of actual Americans who sought solace from the travails of the Great Depression by escaping ...
Here are our critic's choices of movies to see this weekend: Top Hat: The first time most of us got to see this 1935 gem, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, it was on the late show, in a murky print, ...
Still time to register for summer art classes
The Wynne Home Arts Center began its summer session of classes this week, and it is not too late to participate.
My 10 Favorite George Gershwin Songs A Trip Down Memory Lane
July 11, 2008, marks the 71st anniversary of George Gershwin's death. What better way to reminisce than a trip down memory lane with my favorite George Gershwin songs? My Favorite Gershwin Songs #10: Bidin' My ...
'The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle' In Farmington
Fred Astaire- Ginger Rogers movies are famous for their lovely soundtracks. But it's doubtful they ever starred in a movie as tuneful as 'The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle.' In the course of the film, ...
Seniors' Lecture Highlights Films of Astaire and Rogers
' There were smiles recollecting seniors' movie-going in the 1930s as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers once again sang and danced across the movie screen, illustrating a lecture for older residents sponsored by ...
Tonight's Movie: Having Wonderful Time
Ginger Rogers plays a secretary who shares a crowded Bronx apartment with her parents and her sister's family.
Tonight's Movie: Vivacious Lady
Peter , a quiet, proper small-town professor, is captivated by nightclub dancer Francie when he visits the Big Apple.
Brooklyn Today:Thursday, June 19, 2008
Good morning. Today is the 171st day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of New York Yankees baseball great Lou Gehrig, who played in seven World Series and won the Most Valuable Player award twice.
Shall We Dance? Don and Shirley Adams lead weekly ballroom dancing lessons at the Senior Adult Recreation Center on Kingston Highway.
Local club helps revive ballroom dancing tradition Don and Shirley Adams lead weekly ballroom dancing lessons at the Senior Adult Recreation Center on Kingston Highway.
Carol Corliss is a movie star who's suffered a nervous breakdown, and for reasons much too complicated to explain here, she ends up on vacation in a mountain cabin with an ornithologist, Emory Muir .
Delivery man demands retrial over Howard Hughes will
“This man performed an act of generosity and kindness that I believe saved Hughes's life.”
Howard Hughes , the reclusive American billionaire and hygiene freak who died in 1976, is the subject of a multi-million pound legal claim brought by a Utah delivery man who says that he once rescued the tycoon ... via The First Post
“Why don't you come up sometime and see me?”
In the Mae West classic She Done Him Wrong, the buxom Bowery beauty famously drawls: "When women go wrong, men go right after them!" That was just the kind of salty dialogue that agitated Hollywood censors in ... via London Free Press
Tonight's Movie: It Had To Be You
IT HAD TO BE YOU has a couple of great things going for it: Ginger Rogers as the leading lady, plus a fabulous title song. via Laura's Miscellaneous Musings
“It was true during the Depression, when Americans managed to scrape together nickels and dimes for an escape to the movies. And as the prospect of another recession looms, studio executives say this time is no different.”
Ginger Rogers cashed in with her first hit song "We're in the Money" in "Gold Diggers of 1933." LOS ANGELES -- With "Iron Man" set to blast off Friday and jump-start the high-flying summer moviegoing season, ... via Hollywood Reporter
“Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?”
Judge Kristin Munson was majorly disappointed by the minor effort that went into this disc, so all Universal gets for a blurb is this equally lazy pun. via DVD Verdict
“Singing was not her strong suit”
Katharine Hepburn had no delusions about her singing voice. When she starred in "Coco," her first and only Broadway musical, the actress was characteristically blunt about her performance. via SFGate
Classic flicks? Start at the beginning
Dear Mr. Smithee : I am the executive director of the Strand Theatre, a 1935 movie house on the Marietta Square that we are renovating. via StarTribune