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With Nobel Prize winner added to his title, President Barack Obama returns home to focus not just on economic growth and job creation but also on how to successfully implement his new strategy in Afghanistan, the withdrawal of forces in Iraq, and the... Full Article at The Daily News Tribune | Waltham, MA
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3. Cleveland CG-15 Wedge: More is better. Cleveland’s Zip-grooves and tiny furrows between will make a golf ball dance like Fred Astaire while the new S sole supposedly improves versatility and performance. Full Article at Biloxi Sun Herald
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Sometimes, in the dark of night, a fearful question clutches the heart. Whatever happened to Eoghan Quigg? Remember him? The tousle-haired lad from Dungiven in Northern Ireland who came third in last year's X Factor final. Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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The always engaging Navo gives us his picks for best films of about photographers. He also gives us a little picture into why he became a photographer. Read it, memorize it, bring it up in conversation. The Navo will be happy. Full Article at New York'd Fashion
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Tap dancing, that percussive clicking across the studio floor, has put a new spring in their step as well as sweat on their brow. Never mind that their execution hasn't yet reached the Fred Astaire level. Full Article at The Californian
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Tonight brings a couple of repeat favorites and Santa. SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN Fred Astaire narrates this tale of Kris Kringle (Mickey Rooney), a young boy with an immense desire to do good things for others. Full Article at NiceGirlsTV.com
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Bill Livingston writes: “Neither Cavs General Manager Danny Ferry nor coach Mike Brown has chastised James. The Browns will be in the Super Bowl before public criticism of James by a Cavs front office type occurs. Full Article at Sports Blogs
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Phil Wood says good-bye after 21 years as the city of Tulsa's auditor. Full Article at Tulsa World
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8 p.m. Channel 6 A lanky mailman with the voice of Fred Astaire explains Santa's origins in this 1970 animated special. In this version, the future jolly old elf is a foundling adopted by the Kringles, a family of toymakers. Full Article at Philadelphia Daily News
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My choices for the 10 Best Christmas Movies of all time are perhaps different than others would opt for. Since I was born in the 1930's, I have had an opportunity to view first-run movies which others have only seen as reruns on late night television. Full Article at Associated Content
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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, 8 p.m. , ABC This Fred Astaire-narrated cartoon has managed to find a place in the Christmas-special pantheon. Some of you are no doubt mumbling about President Obama bumping this one, too. Full Article at TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
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Forget about Christmas movies with snow and tinsel and grumpy fathers learning lessons. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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The 2009 holiday engagement of Goodspeed Musicals' Jim Henson's Emmet Otter, a Christmas musical with human and puppet characters, begins Dec. 5 at Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. Full Article at Playbill
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Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. A new book on Michelle Obama’s iconic beauty transforms the genre. PLUS, view our gallery of the first lady. Full Article at The Daily Beast
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STEVEN McRae is clowning around in the wet streets the way he must have as a kid. Full Article at The Australian
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The onslaught of holiday TV specials and movies began right after Thanksgiving. Full Article at The Seattle Times
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LOS GATOS, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- You'd expect Netflix Inc. , the online DVD rental pioneer, to be all about movies. And the company headquarters here is indeed a paean to film. Full Article at MarketWatch
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Undated -- On Dec. 2, 1933, "Dancing Lady," Fred Astaire's first film, was released. Joan Crawford was his dance partner. In 1943, "Carmen Jones" opened on Broadway. Full Article at WFMY | DigTriad.com
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I do hope the wonderful talents of song and dance man Tim Flavin are on celluloid for posterity as he is a Fred Astaire. I have followed him since I first saw him On Your Toes at Palace Theatre, London in 1985. Full Article at The Stage
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Joseph Lederer / Disney Enterprises, via AP(From left): Ann-Margret, Judge Reinhold, Martin Short, Tim Allen and Elizabeth Mitchell appear in a scene from "Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause." The movie airs at 8 and 10 p.m. Dec. 1 on ABC Family; 9 p.m. Full Article at Syracuse.com
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Waxworks of actors Fred Astaire (L) and Ginger Rogers are on display at the opening of Madame Tussauds Hollywood in Los Angeles July 21, 2009.
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Showcased at Fred Leighton Beverly Hills is Paul Flato's sensational aquamarine and ruby belt necklace. This piece belonged to Mrs. Cole Porter, who later gave the necklace to Fred Astaire's daughter, Adele.
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Showcased at Fred Leighton Beverly Hills is Paul Flato's sensational aquamarine and ruby belt necklace. This piece belonged to Mrs. Cole Porter, who later gave the necklace to Fred Astaire's daughter, Adele.
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Bollywood was fun – technically hard and stylistically weird ... And Broadway I got to learn about the whole history. I was spending all night watching videos on YouTube of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. It's very pleasing to watch, their style, which is really messy, but looks good. It's a messy clean.
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The art is to make it look easy, and when you do that, people think you're not doing anything ... It's like the difference between Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. When Kelly danced, you'd think, I couldn't do that. When Astaire danced, you'd think, I could do that. I'm in the Fred Astaire school.
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My dad used to show me Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, and Gene Kelly, and I just knew that that was my calling
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He's like Fred Astaire on a surfboard
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My mom was a dancer and ran a dance school, and I got my first pair of tap shoes at the age of three ... I was a hyperactive kid and a quick study. I would stand in the back of my mom's classes and pick things up immediately. And I would watch TV and see the Nicholas Brothers or Fred Astaire or a Bob Fo...
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If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.
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I would watch films – Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire – but we never went to the ballet. We were always at the racetrack instead. To me that was normal, to go to the track, watch Dad race and be surrounded by these incredible cars. I loved it.
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Because the estate of Fred Astaire has been so tight with the control of his image and performances, the reputation of the music of Irving Berlin, which provided the late singer/dancer with signature pieces, can be argued to have been compromised
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When we started to put the show together and began to see the dancers performing the routines, we thought, Wow! ... We were able to work through the Fred Astaire estate to be able to use the dance numbers.
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There are a variety of ways to improve your social dancing at Fred Astaire
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He's kind of the 21st century John Travolta and Fred Astaire wrapped into one
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My dad found these Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movies and Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor. Every Sunday we had movie night. And we watched musicals. It was so amazing because I was addicted to it as a kid. I couldn't wait to come to America to see some of this live.
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Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backward and in high heels.
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