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Zellizabeth
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When you're 36 and your husband's 81 and you say you're "[looking] for the father image ... There's nothing wrong with that ... Fred's part-father to me." ..... ???
— 21 hours, 22 min ago
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Zellizabeth
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Fred Astaire was fascinated with crime and police work and sometimes went to crime scenes or the morgue FOR FUN??
— 22 hours, 13 min ago
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Zellizabeth
is on page 248 of 340
Describing Fred Astaire's character in Daddy Long Legs as "the foster parent with whom [Leslie Caron] falls in love" is, at once, remarkably succinct, incredibly accurate, and reminds me of why I hate that movie so much.
— 22 hours, 51 min ago
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Zellizabeth
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"She's just beautiful, trained, very strong in whatever we did. When [Cyd Charisse] and I were dancing, we didn't know what time it was."
— 23 hours, 2 min ago
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Zellizabeth
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This book is otherwise pretty good, but claiming that Astaire's only blackface number was "totally devoid of racial stereotype"??? uh what???
— Jan 05, 2026 02:36PM
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