When the cinetrix was a graduate student--and miserable, natch--she spent a fair amount of time in the stacks of the Reg reading books not for class. Her three faves were The Battle of Brazil, Shock Value, and The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book.
Of course, her love affair with Astaire and Rogers dates back much further. From them she learned about the three B's: bias-cut dresses, bricolage, and Bowes [Maj. Edward], and reconsidered a fourth, Bullwinkle [Fractured Fairy Tales, to be precise], with a heightened sense of appreciation for the vocal stylings of stateside upper-class twit extraordinaire Edward Everett Horton.
The clip above condenses the most fully realized Astaire-Rogers film, Swing Time, into my two favorite dance sequences, but it neglects my parents' favorite number, A Fine Romance. Thrill to it below.
