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DIED. Alan Jay Lerner, 67, composer, playwright and lyricist of Broadway hit musicals, including Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon and Gigi, and author of the screenplay for An American in Paris; of lung cancer; in New York City. Lerner worked with Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein, but his greatest successes were produced during a tempestuous, 20-year collaboration with Frederick Loewe (Lerner wrote the book and lyrics, Loewe the music). The partnership broke up in the early 1960s, but last year, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, the two were jointly honored for their contributions to American...
...series of small roles until she wowed audiences with her lithe yet sultry performance alongside Gene Kelly in 1952's Singin' in the Rain. Known for her never-ending legs, Charisse soon became a sought-after partner, often paired with Kelly or Fred Astaire, captivating audiences in musicals including Brigadoon and The Band Wagon, in which she had her first starring role...
...place last weekend to the biggest attendance in its history: more than 70,000 people, according to organizers. Lasting four days, the San Diego Con, as it's known, spans nearly five football fields on two floors, hosting retailers, publishers, creators and fans. While it sounds like a comix Brigadoon, a magical island that appears just once a year, many in the comixcenti scowl at its mention, fuming at the mix of toys, models, movies, videogames, animation, trading cards, t-shirts and ancillary merchandise that they see as irrelevant junk. On assignment, your TIME.comix reporter was there for the first...
...were pretty inane, except for the glorious terping, and his directors added little but traffic management to the packed Astaire brought. Kelly worked for better directors - Busby Berkeley on "For Me and My Gal" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," Vincente Minnelli on "An American in Paris" and "Brigadoon" - but, as co-director of two of his best films, he could take a measure of credit for their success, even as Astaire, who was "only" the star and choreographer, could avoid blame for his films? inadequacies...
...Thousands Cheer," and he sometimes led his leading ladies the same way. A different leading lady, often a movie ingenue, in almost every picture: Leslie Caron in "An American in Paris," Reynolds in "Singin? in the Rain" (both were 19 when the films were shot), Charisse in "Brigadoon." As Schickel notes: "There is no Ginger Rogers linked immortally to Kelly?s name, and that?s no accident. For he was a solipsist who did not share the screen easily with anyone. Suspiciously good at playing hammy, self-serving show folks ... he occasionally made you wonder: Is he exercising egocentricity...