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OT, but of interest--Andrew Sarris

Pat — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:51:34 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/movies/12powe.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&8mu&emc=mua2 A look at a critic who was one of the great exponents of the auteur theory.

Re: Roy Pickard's book on FA

marccw05 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:25:11 GMT

there's a picture of the stephen harvey book in the 'fred's portraits' file, although the cover photo on my book is different. gallafent writes mostly about

Re: French documentary film

Kathy Bolton — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:48:33 GMT

Did anyone notice the photo behind Roland Petit's interview is of Fred? Got a kick of that. I assumed the interview was at his home. Not understanding French,

Re: Roy Pickard's book on FA

tmwctd — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:32:48 GMT

From this list, I would say Harvey is a must and you can postpone buying the Gallafant book for a while. The others I have not read in a long time so it's

Re: Article about Tony Bennett

pnealjones — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:52:54 GMT

Well, you'll notice that my own id never spotted the error...

Re: Article about Tony Bennett

axelrodh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:23:08 GMT

In reading your response, I glanced at what I wrote. I had to laugh at my "Freudian" slip. The song was "Call me Irresponsible" NOT Irresistable. I did not

Re: Architecutural Digest article on RKO set designs

Nancy Price — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:17:02 GMT

I subscribe to the web version and thats how I found the story ... From: pnealjones Subject: [astaire] Re: Architecutural Digest article

Re: French documentary film

axelrodh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:12:29 GMT

It's really a wonderful video, thanks. I wish that parts 4,5, and 7 were also available. I wrote to the poster and asked, pretty please. Let's see what

Re: Christopher Gable

axelrodh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:36:09 GMT

Cute clip and a wonderful homage. I like the fact that they included some songs that are not the real famous ones, like Drum Crazy, I'd Rather Lead a Band and

Re: Architecutural Digest article on RKO set designs

pnealjones — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:18:18 GMT

Great, thanks! Is this July issue still on the stands?

Architecutural Digest article on RKO set designs

nancy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:06:10 GMT

http://tinyurl.com/nlo4l4

Re: Article about Tony Bennett

pnealjones — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:23:35 GMT

Cahn and Van Heusen, the ultimate Sinatra songsmiths, also wrote "Walking Happy" for Fred, who pronounced it the best Fred Astaire song ever written.

Re: Christopher Gable

pnealjones — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:18:36 GMT

Christopher Gable was in Ken Russell's THE BOY FRIEND (on the same section of Youtube as this clip), a film which btw Astaire did not enjoy. He felt the whole

Re: The Man

pnealjones — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:10:04 GMT

Fantastic! Thanks -- having your story to go along with mine, after all these years, feels like sort of an apotheosis. (We should write a book...)

Re: Article about Tony Bennett

samiskee@... — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:57:40 GMT

Possibly because when he was younger his voice was higher and lighter, as it often is. As he aged, he sang deeper but was always able to sing what was called