cinema

Fred Astaire

popcorn

television

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

film critic

journalist

cause of death

natural causes

has a magic that loows someone who’s never left Peoria to know the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who’s never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

is like watching a grounded skylark when seeing him not singing and not dancing.

Watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

is the last area of the movie business where good taste is still a concern.

is a thing we are drawn to the way are drawn to the scene of an accident.

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Vincent Canby

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