Orson Welles giving a masterclass in how to casually arrive in the middle of a film and blow everyone off screen in five minutes
Top Hat, just to try and make myself look even more masculine, is a Fred & Ginger film about, oh, I don't know, some romantic misunderstanding or another, with some fucking aMAZing dancing
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 13:59, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

there's a female empowerment quote on calendars that says
"remember, everything Fred Astaire did, Ginger Rogers did backwards and in heels".

Makes me smile.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:02, Reply)

Yeah, Ginger said that herself, I think maybe after Fred went on to dance with Cyd Charisse
who was, I'm sorry to say, probably technically a better dancer than Ginger. But they never quite had the same chemistry. Fred Astaire can make anyone look good but all his films with Ginger, complete fluff although they were, had amazing sparkle to them

/awaits accusations of gayness
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:09, Reply)

Cyd and Gene all the way for me
Fred was technically the better dancer, but Gene had that sass. The magic ingredient. And Ginger would have been too saccharine with Gene.
Cyd and Gene.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:10, Reply)

Hmm
I agree... sort of. Gene was a legend, no doubt, and for the reasons you describe, but I could never get bored of watching Fred, he makes the screen crackle
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:14, Reply)

he's gay and all

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:20, Reply)

No he wasn't
Was he?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:24, Reply)

I don't think he was an actual homosexual
But he was a gay like you are
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 26 May 2010, 15:11, Reply)

*brushes away the dust from dead horse and whip*
BUMDER ALERT. BUMDER ALERT. BUMDER WITH ENCYLOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE OF MUSICAL THEATRE HAS BEEN SIGHTED. REMAIN ON GUARD, PARTICULARLY YOUR REARGUARD, LEST HE SHOULD TRY TO BUM YOU BACKWARDS AND IN HEELS. BUMDER ALERT. BUMDER ALERT...etc
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:12, Reply)