Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is known today for his performance in Singin' in the Rain, he was a dominant force in Hollywood musical...
Don volunteers to do the stunts in Bert's place so the director Roscoe tells ...
Roscoe stops playing the fiddle when the stunt man is hurt during filming and...
Don proves that he's successful as a stunt man and asks the director if there...
Don tells Dora Bailey about his early years as a stunt man in silent pictures.
Don paints a lovely picture of his and Lina's tumultuous relationship to Dora...
Don quickly stops Lina from speaking to the audience at the movie premiere an...
Lina tells Don not to let his friends talk to his fiancée that way and Don ha...
Don can't believe that Lina thinks they're engaged when he can't even stand h...
Cosmo stands aside as his best friend, actor Don Lockwood is swarmed by adori...
Don Lockwood starts to hit on Kathy Selden after he jumps in her car to escap...
Don catches a ride with Kathy who explains that she's seen one of his movies ...
Kathy insults Don's profession of being a movie actor and tells him the diffe...
Kathy and Don argue as Kathy drives Don to a party in Hollywood. She insults...
Kathy shows up at the Hollywood party that Don is attending and she is perfor...
Don walks into the Coconut Grove girls dressing room to find Kathy, but she h...
Don admits to Cosmo that he's still thinking about his encounter with stage a...
Don feels a little unworthy after his talk with Kathy Selden so he asks his g...
After telling Don Lockwood that movie actors aren't in a dignified profession...
Don catches up with Kathy after her song and dance routine at the Hollywood p...
Cosmo's car gets a flat tire so he and Don get step out of it to take a look ...
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some large sea changes on Mad Men, so many changes that we seemed due for a break. Last night’s episode, “The Crash” was a break in more ways than one and an unanticipated jaunt through the back alleys of show creator Matthew Weiner’s mind. The Stalker We’ve never [...]
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Every week, we’ll take a look at the biggest stories in entertainment news, sports, politics, news news, and pop culture, and we’re going to present them to you here on THE WEEKLY WIND-UP PODCAST in about 15 minutes. Good deal right? Yes, your choice for sound clips is filling you in on all the news [...]
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As I said back when we looked at Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, JJ Abrams’ Star Trek is not my Star Trek, but like Khan, it is a franchise saving spectacle from the mind of an interloper. It’s another film that twists the nethers of purists while serving as a gateway drug to the uninitiated. Sure, [...]
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We knew that changes would come when Don and Ted merged SCDP and CGC, but while this week’s episode did show off some of those anticipated growing pains and redundancies, we also got a chance to pivot back to Don’s consuming love affair with his neighbor Sylvia. The Treehouse. Like a shoebox filled with valuable [...]
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Every week, we’ll take a look at the biggest stories in entertainment news, sports, politics, news news, and pop culture, and we’re going to present them to you here on THE WEEKLY WIND-UP PODCAST in about 15 minutes. Good deal right? Yes, your choice for sound clips is filling you in on all the news [...]
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I’m usually not a fan of issue movies. These films take impossibly complex issues and try to condense them down into bite-size portions, usually abandoning the true horrors of these situations in favor of unrealistic heroism, resolution, and a laundry list of cinematic tropes that cheapen the overall project and push people away from [...]
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