Dance Break – Travolta

Every once in a while, I just have to watch great dancing. I love all of it, but I admit, I particularly like to watch men dance. Today, let’s appreciate John Travolta. Although he is no long whippet-thin as he was in his dancing heyday, John Travolta is still so light and free in his [...]

Why the Internet is Evil

Because I have work to do. I. Have. Work. To. Do. And I just spent an hour watching men dance. I could watch Baryshnikov all day. I’d forgotten how good the dancing was in White Nights. Here he is with the late, great, Gregory Hines. Watch his landings, so soft!: And the air he gets [...]

It's all so beautiful!

Via Deacon Greg, who says: This may be the world’s most eloquent homily on life and death, and it doesn’t contain a single word. One year in 120 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo. It kind of reminded me of a scene from the movie “Michael,” where John Travolta, playing the soon-to-exit-earth Archangel looks around [...]

When Fred Astaire went mad – UDPDATE

From inside I heard [his wife] calling, “Fwed, Fwed, come quickly!…There’s aperfectly dwedful man at the door without a shirt…he says he knows your sister and has a letter from a bookie called Gwaves.” From these unpromising beginnings, a friendship grew which perhaps meant more to me than any other in Hollywood. … Fred was [...]

TGIF: Stand up at your desk and dance!

This great vocation video got me started looking for more, and I found it: Don’t sit down yet! I always did like the flamenco! Okay, this one you can sit down for – you’ll have to – The Nicholas Brothers are incredible, and Astaire may have been right when he called this the greatest dance [...]