Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their rele
Gene Kelly's blend of acrobatics, athleticism, and artistry
blew a potent blast of machismo under the tight skirt of the postwar Hollywood musical. With his auspicious Broadway
debut as the lead cad in "Pal Joey" (1940),
classically trained Kelly wowed audiences and fellow hoofers
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