Posted 2:06 PM by Gene

Dancing together, Astaire and Rogers expressed many of love’s moods: courtship and seduction, repartee and responsiveness, teasing and challenge, the surprise of newfound harmony, the happy recapture of bygone romance, the giddy exhilaration of high spirits and intense mutual accord, the sense of a perfect balance of power, the tragedy of parting and, not least, the sense of love as role playing....

We need to keep returning to these movies.

Quite true -- and after a weekend where ANOTHER AIN'T-IT-COOL-NEWS production does another Friday-to-Saturday dropoff on the road to oblivion ("ONLY 10 percent", insists a press agent of the soon-to-be dishonorably discharged PVT. ZELL), in a time where we have nothing more than tentpoles and apes on the screen, we need for the movies to return, in some impossible manner, to them.

P. S. USAOKAY!!!!!'s press agent calls Hasbro's toy's 59-percent dropoff "respectable." Yes, most of the newshole IS filled with promotions, and should be stuck in a deep underground hole alongside radioactive waste.

(First link via the usual AhtsJournal)