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National Tap Dance Day: Show Us Your Moves

The Huffington Post | Katherine Patke | Posted 05.25.2012

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Today marks the 22nd annual National Tap Dance Day, as well as the 134th birthday of tap dancing legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. In fact, May 25th w...

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The Academy Wishes Gene Kelly A Happy 100th Birthday

Debra Levine | Posted 05.21.2012

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A parade of Technicolor-tinged dance sequences enchanted a full house at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater Thursday night. "A Centennial Tribute to Gene Kel...

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25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Singin' in the Rain'

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 05.27.2012

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In a year when the Best Picture Oscar went to a comedy about Hollywood's turbulent transition from silence to sound, "Singin' in the Rain" suddenly se...

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Why Judy Garland Is So Beloved

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 01.29.2012

She is an empath. That is, she is someone who can not only feel others' pain but make the pain go away. I believe this quality is what makes Judy Ga...

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Through a Lens, Starkly: Weegee's Naked Hollywood

Tom Teicholz | Posted 01.29.2012

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A Festival to Remember: TCM's Opening Night

Penelope Andrew | Posted 07.05.2011

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Leslie Caron walks the red carpet to the 60th-anniversary screening of An American in Paris, which opened the TCM Film Festival on April 28. Photo: J...

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The Joy of Glee

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

What Glee shows us is that viewers still hunger for quality. For originality. For something different. For shows that break the mold and succeed in turning old-fashioned into new-fashioned.

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Missing Mr. Matthau

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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On the first of this month, Walter Matthau, who left us just a decade ago, would have turned ninety. Ruminating on this unnoted milestone made me consider anew what a unique and gifted screen actor he was.

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The Philip Roth Reader: Putting the Ire in Satire

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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I admire Roth for being able to discipline rage into something that makes us feel smarter just for reading it.

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Who Inspired Michael Jackson's Fashion?

Tove Hermanson | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the amazing aspects of Jackson's style is that no matter how outrageous he looked throughout his life, he was consistent in the visual motifs in which he decorated himself.

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Is Blu-ray That Red-Hot?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

With time it was inevitable that the technological innovation called "Blu-ray" would impinge on my particular corner of the movie universe, and I would have to confront it, willingly or not.

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Dancing and Singing Holiday Hosannas Through Movie Musicals

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates this July 4th weekend with "All Singin' All Dancin' All Weekend!"-- a marathon of American musicals spanning six decades

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Betsy Blair, Blacklisted Actress And Gene Kelly's Teen Bride, Dies

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Betsy Blair, the Oscar-nominated actress and teenage bride of Gene Kelly, has died in London at the age of 85, her publisher said on Th...

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InStyle's Hal Rubenstein: "The Only Thing George W. Bush Ever Did Right Was Wear A Well-Cut Suit And Great Cowboy Boots"

Amanda Christine Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although he's a native New Yorker, InStyle Fashion Director Hal Rubenstein started wearing cowboy boots in college and has seldom been seen without th...

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Actress-Dancer Cyd Charisse Passes Away

AP | BOB THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Cyd Charisse, the long-legged beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire ...

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