#michael kidd

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Michael Kidd (British, 1937-2022), Self Portrait, 1977. Oil on canvas, 60 x 45 cm. The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Self Portrait

Michael Kidd (b.1937)

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BB: Haha, this is nice.~ You and I usually never get to dance like this, especially since you’d usually be performing or we get too busy with the kids or something else ends up happening. Hopefully Baxter and Namie don’t mind being the main parents for a couple months, haha!~

Michael: Haha, I think they’ll be fine. Besides, the kids are getting into their teens now so they should all be fine. Although, I can imagine Namie giving both of us an earful about how long we’ve been gone for.~

(DON’T FORGET, KIDD AND BILLY ARE OPEN FOR INTERACTIONS TOO ;w;)

[mthguy]

And now for something completely different...

Choreographed by Michael Kidd, in the 1953 Vincente Minnelli-directed film The Band Wagon, "Dancing in the Dark," performed by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, is indisputably one of the top dance performances of all time in a musical film... the very definition of poetry in motion.

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'The Band Wagon' – Fred Astaire goes to Broadway on Max

One of the great movie musicals, The Band Wagon (1953) stars Fred Astaire as Tony Hunter, a former Broadway hoofer who returns to New York when his Hollywood career dries up. He’s looking for a comeback and his friends, the fun-loving married couple Lester and Lily Marton (Oscar Levant and Nanette Fabray), have developed one just for him. When they sign Broadway’s hottest talent, enfant terrible…

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"Derek Jarman’s Garden" by Michael Kidd. British artist born 1937.

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It's Always Fair Weather

1955. Satirical Musical

By Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

Starring: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd, David Burns, Jay C. Flippen, Steve Mitchell, Hal March, Paul Maxey, Peter Leeds, Alex Gerry, Madge Blake, Wilson Wood...

Country: United States

Language: English

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IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER ( Beau fixe sur New York) - Stanley Donen et Gene Kelly (1955)

Après On the Town (Un jour à New York) et Singin’ in the Rain (Chantons sous la pluie), It’s Always Fair Weather (Beau fixe sur New York) est la dernière des trois comédies musicales signées par Stanley Donen et Gene Kelly sur un scénario de Betty Comden et Adolph Green, au sein de la fameuse “Freed Unit” à la MGM, du nom du producteur. Film rare, injustement resté dans l’ombre des deux premiers…

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1955 cyd Charisse’s legs win it all

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Michael Kidd was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and who staged some of the leading Broadway and...

Link: Michael Kidd

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The subway dance section of the Girl Hunt Ballet from The Bandwagon gets more hilarious every time I watch it.

Bullshit happening in the background is probably the purest form of comedy cinematography. And when that bullshit is as magnificent as "Michael Kidd adds guns to the Crapshooters' Ballet", complete with rule-of-three hyperbolic death throes? Paired with the music getting more hysterical than Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet? Perfection. Kudos to the stuntman ragdolling down the stairs in the most funny way possible.

"Yeah, the NYC subway is just like that. MURRICA!"

As I said in the previous post, fractal build and release of tension is key, and we have that in this segment, as well. There's the overall (saccharinely) romantic swell, but the gunshot gags work great to puncture the way this is otherwise a dead ringer for the big dance duet numbers in other films I keep calling sappy to soppy. Which only emphasizes how much the Girl Hunt Ballet overall is a parody, that the film is in on the joke.

There's the parody element on the noir level, too, with The Blonde way overplaying her swooning but this bonehead idiot detective eating it with a spoon, while being so Stoic And Manly for how he can ignore the wanton violence happening around him. Not to mention if we go with an interpretation that half of these men are The Blonde's guys trying to off Riley, and the other half are just random guys trying to protect him For Reasons? Even more funny.

[starkcanvas]

Hey guys,

So, while I did hear that the Kindergala has been extended to the end of November, I'm sadly hear to say that I'm considering pulling Michael, BB and Tempezt out of the Gala early this year.

It's unfortunately been a literal month since my last Gala interaction and I feel like that's probably a sign I should have these characters move on from the KG series and fandom as a whole. I'll still be all over KG 3 when it releases and I'll probably post art of Michael, BB and Tempezt on occasion. They just won't be associated with Kindergarten anymore.

I've given a lot of thought about this but like I said, I'm still considering on what to do. Figured making a post about it and getting some feedback might help me come to a decision.

But other than that, I wanna thank everyone who's been around in the fandom since the KG2 days for all the support for my old AstraySpirits AU and Time Guard AU with Tempezt. These charaters would not be who they are today without your guys support from way back when and for that, I'm really thankful for all of you :)

[mthguy]

“Dancing in the Dark,” from the movie musical The Band Wagon (1953), one of the finest pieces of cinematic choreography in film history.

With elegance and style, Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire demonstrate that less really is more, as they seemingly float above air, while they dance on a lovely summer evening in New York City’s Central Park.

Choreography by Michael Kidd.

[lover-from-the-past]

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Fairy of the Wood

2008

Artists : Michael Whelan and Tom Kidd

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Chip Kidd designed the original dino logo for the Jurassic Park hardcover. Crichton’s reaction fax to the cover design is priceless.

https://samuel-thomas.com/the-jurassic-park-logo/

LMFAO I think the image on the site itself is probably Photoshopped, but it was too good not to post:

But I did manage to track down a direct source, and the anecdote itself appears to be true!