thomas gentille

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ARTHUR TREACHER AND WILLIE BEST ARE GREAT TOGETHER IN THIS.(WILLIE BEST, WHO IS BLACK, IS NOT CREDITED), THEIR ROUTINE WHERE TREACHER AS JEEVES, AND BEST AS DROWSEY, DO A KIND OF DUET WITH TREACHER GIVING MUSICAL DIRECTION, AND BEST PLAYING THE SAX IS VERY FUNNY AND QUITE WONDERFUL. NEVINS IS FINE AND SO IS FIELDS. BUT THE SCRIPT IS A BIT AMISS. THE CAR CHASE IS ENDLESS AND AFTER SHORT WHILE BORING. BE PREPARED FOR A COMMERCIAL EVERY 5 MINUTES (DISGRACEFUL). WATCHING TREACHER AND BEST, MAKE IT ALL WORTH WHILE. THE FIGHT SCENE TOWARDS THE END IS REALLY QUIT FINE. NEVIN REMINDS ME OF DON QUIXOTE WITH HIS ROUND SHIELD FIGHTING OFF THE COMIC ENEMY AS TREACHER DEMOLISHES THEM, AND BEST PILES THEM UP. YOU HAVE TO LOVE MOVIES. WITH ALL THEIR FAULTS TO ENJOY THIS, I MOST CERTAINLY DO, AND DID. GIVING IT A 3 STAR RATING WOULD BE PUSHING IT A BIT, THOUGH TREACHER AND BEST GET 5.

Thank You, Jeeves!

Astair and Powell dressed in white DO THE BEST TAP DANCE ROUTINE ever filmed. To Cole Porters 'Begin the Beguine', which just happens to be my favorite piece of popular music. Murphy, Astair, and Powell do a great number as well. Frankly, I love Astair and Rodgers together: their tap is always combined with Ballroom and my idea of perfection. So I feel a smidge guilty when I say Astair and Powell and Tap....WOW!!!!! I might add I had tap lessons for 10 years so this is no novice speaking. This number is SPECTACULAR in every way.

Broadway Melody of 1940

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A fantastic book, written by a fantastic woman. Phillis Lambert is responsible for the Seagram Building being built by the architect Mies van der Rohe. This masterpiece of architecture was constructed from 1954-1958 the exact years I went to art school. Consequently, in my inner being, I have always thought of it as my building. The building is one of the main reasons I moved to New York in 1961, the Manhattan of my dreams. For a number of years I worked on W.53rd St. I have crossed the Seagram's plaza, then and still, easily thirty five hundred times, often going out of my way to do so. I am thrilled unendingly by it. I thank Mies, Phyllis Lambert and her father for this building. Her book holds a cherished place on my bookshelves. If you love good architecture as I do, even if not, this is a read not to be missed..

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