Fred Astaire
  • 'Dancing With the Stars': Gavin Degraw has a future in standup

    This guy may not be Fred Astaire, but he's really darn charming....

  • Kennedy Center honoree: I thought they got the wrong Neil Diamond'

    ...Obama , he spoke for this article about receiving the medal previously bestowed on other singular talents from Fred Astaire and Henry Fonda in the late 1970s to Sir Paul McCartney and Oprah Winfrey last year. Q: What......

  • A few words with ...

    ...research by watching the "That's Entertainment" movies and older episodes of this show, and by YouTube -ing Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly . Just looking at the history that dance has in entertainment, it's so remarkable. Q......

  • 'Inception'

    ...sequence, a fight in a zero-gravity hallway, cleverly lifts from "2001" (and "Royal Wedding," in which Fred Astaire danced on the walls and the ceiling). Such dizzying high points compensate for lumpier bits of exposition......

  • 'Michael Jackson's This Is It'

    ...This Is It" is best taken as a bittersweet celebration of Jackson the dancer, the greatest popular dancer since Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly or at least James Brown. When he revisits "Billie Jean" and "Beat It," we see someone......

  • Johnny Depp: An outlaw outlook

    ...the '30s, '40s and even the '20s. I was fascinated with the old Bogey movies, with Cagney movies, or even Fred Astaire ." Undeniably, Dillinger the myth remains bigger than Dillinger the man, even though "Public Enemies" is......

  • Dancer Cyd Charisse Dies at 86

    ...interview with The Times. Charisse also danced with Fred Astaire , the premier dancer of his age, in major production...had a brief featured moment with the film's star, Fred Astaire. It led to her signing a seven-year contract with......

  • MTV Puts More Than Four on the Floor

    ...present. "I'm hoping, as a choreographer, that it's going to bring it to the next level again, just like Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly , when they were the stars of the screen," he says. "Where you can go somewhere, and it......

  • No 'Supernatural' Slippers for Ruby

    ...eventually going to be kickboxing in heels." Remember that old line about Ginger Rogers doing everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in heels? Such is the fate of the female action hero, even when fighting is not involved......

  • TV Party: 'On The Lot'

    ...Raisinets, all sold at approximately four times market value. On the hi-fi: "That's Entertainment" by Fred Astaire , "Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland , "Moon River" by Audrey Hepburn , "As Time Goes By" by Dooley......

  • Novelist, Screenwriter Sidney Sheldon dies

    ...the New York Times review said at the time. Sheldon was also a screenwriter for the Judy Garland - Fred Astaire musical " Easter Parade" (1948) and the Astaire- Ginger Rogers musical "The Barkleys of Broadway......

  • 'Singin' in the Rain' Screenwriter, Lyricist Dies at 89

    ...Along with "Singin' in the Rain" starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds and "The Band Wagon" with Fred Astaire , she and Green wrote the screenplays for "It's Always Fair Weather" with Kelly (1955) as well as some of the......

  • Review: 'Jet Li's Fearless'

    ...Shanghai are done simply and clearly, without too much editing pizzazz--somewhat in the classical, lean way Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly used to film their dances. In a way, martial arts movies are like musicals. Their soul......

  • Film Sweetheart June Allyson Dies at 88

    ...She wanted desperately to learn to dance and, unable to afford dance lessons, she picked it up by going to see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. When she boasted that she could dance as well as Rogers, her school friends dared......