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...titles of their RKO movies changed - "Flying Down to Rio," "The Gay Divorc?e," "Top Hat," "Roberta," "Follow the Fleet," "Swing Time," "Shall We Dance," "Carefree," "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" - but their roles were pretty constant. Fred was nature's nobleman, Ginger the plucky girl who made good by dancing well. It didn't matter that the films' plots were aggressively silly, the dialogue often inane. The musical numbers had a formula too: Fred courting Ginger, pursuing her in song and dance, while she ponders her ethical or emotional reservations to dancing-romancing; he approaches, she retreats...
...main point about Spider-Man: you may be a superhero, but when you get home, you still have to take out the garbage." DAVID P. VERNON Tucson, Ariz...
...historians and scholars cited him as our greatest President, but among average Americans, the first George W. was voted only the seventh most popular. (Lincoln was first.) Coverage of him in history textbooks has declined to less than 10% of what it was in the 1960s. The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, which owns his family home in Virginia, wants to restore Washington to his rightful place in our history and hearts, but for that to happen, the father of our country needs a makeover. The still popular tourist attraction (ahead of Graceland in numbers of yearly visitors but behind...
...Fred Astaire, the creator and apotheosis of movie dance. By the time Kelly got to Hollywood in 1941, Astaire had already completed his amazing series of RKO musicals with Rogers. Among other things, this run of eight films - from "Flying Down to Rio" in 1933 to "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" in 1939 - established the gangly Fred Austerlitz from Omaha as the most elegant man in the world...
...highest-paid executives but was later convicted of tax fraud; in Miami. Over three decades, Posner built an industrial empire worth $4 billion but in 1987 pleaded no-contest to tax evasion charges and was banned in 1993 from serving as an officer in a public company. DIED. VERNON WALTERS, 85, retired Army lieutenant general who was U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; in West Palm Beach, Florida. Walters' military career began at the outset of WW II, and his linguistic abilities?he spoke seven foreign languages?led him to become a globe-trotting envoy for U.S. Presidents from Harry Truman...