Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Justin Harrison will be far too busy on Saturday evening to tune into Strictly Come Dancing and watch the Merseyside Fred Astaire who called him a 'plank'.
The Scratching Post (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... because I've got a bunch of his songs stuck in my head. Like this one. I recently bought a 2 CD set of Fred Astaire songs. It was the result of our local jazz station's weekend Rugcutter's Swing shows which led to me creating a Pandora station based on some of the artists which led to me hearing a Fred Astaire song I really liked which led to the purchase of the CDs which led to this! Halp!
Sharon's Wine Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Heaven, I'm in heaven ... Fred Astaire sang it. Driving through the vineyards of the Côte de Beaune under mottled skies, I felt it. This curious emotion that comes from being in places that evoke taste memories on your tongue. Oh! Puligny-Montrachet! Minerally, heart-breakingly taut 2004 J.-M. Boillot . Oh, Volnay. 2002 Pascal & Reyane Bouley Volnay 1er Cru "Champans," beating soft and lush like a...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Gai Pearl Marshall was a talented dancer who went on to become the doyenne of fashion public relations. She started her dancing career with the Bluebell Girls, appeared regularly on Italian television and later handled the publicity for Jean Muir, Missoni and Moschino. A flamboyant woman, she captured the hearts of several Italian actors during the many years she spent in that country.
Articles Database (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Auburn was an American car manufacturer which produced cars from 1900 to 1936. Like so many other early automobile manufacturers, Auburn automobiles were created by makers of horse-drawn carriages Frank and Morris Eckhart of Eckhart Carriage Co. The first car models were experiments as they were hand-built cars and distributing them only in the [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
John DiLeo reviews four biographies for the Washington Post: Robert Wagner's Pieces of My Heart: A Life, Marc Eliot's Reagan: The Hollywood Years, Bernard F Dick's Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty and Joseph Epstein's Fred Astaire. "One of...
Political Waves (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The House just passed the bailout — the Senate already had. While it ain’t good, we couldn’t dink around like Japan did awhile back, hoping against hope and crippling themselves; we had to move ahead with something. Obama has said that as Prez, he would amend with legislation if it proves detriment to the public. [...]
Ansa (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Actress wows press amid rehearsals for Fellini musical
Beam in on this, will you? (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
It may not load because YouTube's doing site maintenance, but someone uploaded the number that made me fall in love with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: Hard to Handle . And! They are having so much fun! Ginger's accent is so ridiculous! He enjoys teasing her and she enjoys beating him up! It should not surprise you that they make me go EEEEEEEEE. littledarkvoice : I love the way they grin at each...
Inventor Spot (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
In all the old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, decor was so voluptuous, so plump, so satiny... The more geometric the lines, the more rich and expensive-looking was the decor. That's the way it is with tufting - what the French call capitonnage or capitonné. Art and Design Home Innovation International Lifestyle Products Shopping Array
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
He's the greatest TV interviewer of his generation - a man who's met EVERYONE and made the chat show his personal fiefdom. Now the Mail is serialising Michael Parkinson's long-awaited autobiography. This is our third extract . . .
Anything Hollywood (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
As recently noted here, Kim Kardashian is hardly the Fred Astaire of this season’s Dancing With The Stars. But you gotta hand it to a girl with clearly NO RHYTHM whatsoever to compete on national television dancing competition. She recently took to her blog to, uh, explain her lackluster performances in a rant aptly titled: Learning [...]
The Coalition of the Swilling (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Is the title of the song quoted below, and while it may sound trite I think it's a good attitude to have: Economic tides ebb and flow; family and friends are the things that matter in life. Obviously economic discussions...
DAVID ARCHULETA FAN BLAST (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
We are not here to spell out Doomsday at a time when some of the world markets are going through a freefall, we’ll leave all of that news to CNN. That said, we would like to encourage people to share the music and videos of David Archuleta. He will soothe all of us through these tough [...]
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Post what you like, for as long as you like, with whomever you like. Self-linking is encouraged. (If that’s too tiny to watch — which it probably is, unless you’re browsing with Google Chrome — then you may want to go here to watch it .) Cab Calloway isn’t easy to upstage, but the Nicholas Brothers sure did it. The staircase sequence at the end of the dance was done in a single take (or so Fayard Nicholas...
