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Fred Astaire + Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

submitted by Randy Perry

(youdiejoe)
1 decade 6 years 3 weeks ago

Wanted to self promote this video in memory of Michael Jackson who passed away today (06.25.09)

From Orignal YouTube post: I love both Astaire and Michael Jackson. I want young people to know Astaire stuff, that is why I made this. The video features scenes from the Girl Hunt ballet in The Band Wagon (1953) starring Astaire and Cyd Charisse (those supreme legs!! The most perfect body a woman could have. So sensual, so elegant), to which MJ gave homage in his Smooth Criminal vid (also in a performance of Get Happy on the Jacksons show in the 70s as well as You Rock My World in 2001), and, as an intro, a sequence from Daddy Long Legs (1955) featuring Leslie Caron (in motion pictures, you mustn't put a coin into a jukebox in an ordinary way!).

13 Comments

I agree about the body on Cyd Charisse. Damn!

>> ^budzos:
I agree about the body on Cyd Charisse. Damn!

the proverbial "all that and a bag of chips" applies

So good. Beautiful women, amazing production. So cool.

Fred Astaire is amazing. If you'll note, he's always so well dressed. Apparently he's credited with several innovations in men's wear: shorter tails jackets (to make the legs appear longer) being one of them.

*promote

Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 10:47am PDT - promote requested by original submitter youdiejoe.

FANTASTIC! Boy I wish I had seen this earlier. Wow, this is so well made.

Prime footage for the *dance channel

Adding video to channels (Dance) - requested by Issykitty.

RIP Jacko *promote

Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 8:10pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter youdiejoe.

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This is the best thing ever. Don't know how I missed it the first time around *promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, June 25th, 2009 6:56pm PDT - promote requested by dag.

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