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This weekend's movie has been set!
It will be the 1941 musical-comedy Hellzapoppin'. Mostly famous today for its incredible swing dance number, it's also notable for being an early deconstructionist film. Fascinating and funny, too!
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Regarding the incredible swing number in
Hellzapoppin', the male dancer who does his solo bit about two minutes into it who's wearing mechanics overalls is Frankie Manning. Frankie and the other dancers you see in the film created this dance back in Harlem at the Savoy Ballroom. He's now 93 years old and still travels all over the world to teach at swing camps and other events. He comes to Pasadena twice a year, just this past November he led us all in the Shim Sham. He's amazing.
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There's also a possibility that's we'll be having a late-night screening of Lindsay Anderson's if... . I plan to show O Lucky Man! in the near future, so I want to give everyone the opportunity to see the first movie in the Mick Travis trilogy (though you don't really need to to appreciate OLM).
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I love
O Lucky Man!. I can't remember how many times I've watched it. I even saw Alan Price in concert. Whatever happened to him?