If Fred Astaire Is The Cary Grant

My Mother Had Gotten A Job As A Receptionist At A Dancing School And Had The Idea That We Should Open Our Own Dancing School; We Did, And It Prospered.

In Film, A Dancer Should Always Be Shot From Head To Toe, Because That Way You Can See The Whole Body And That Is The Art Of Dancing. Nowadays They Shoot The Nose. Left Nostril. Right Nostril. Hand. Foot. Bust. Derrière. The Film Prevents You From Determining Who Is A Good Dancer And Who Is Not.

If Fred Astaire Is The Cary Grant Of Dance, I'm The Marlon Brando.

I Wanted To Invent Some Kind Of American Dance That Was Danced To The Music That I Grew Up On: Cole Porter And Rodgers And Hart And Irving Berlin. So I Evolved A Style That Certainly Didn't Catch On Right Away - But I Had Some Good Mentors In New York Who Encouraged Me.

She's One Of Those Third Year Girls Who Gripe My Liver... You Know, American College Kids. They Come Over Here To Take Their Third Year And Lap Up A Little Culture... They're Officious And Dull. They're Always Making Profound Observations They've Overheard.