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Smooth Criminal: Fred Astaire Michael Jackson

Smooth Criminal: Fred Astaire Michael Jackson Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron Choreographed by Michael Kidd 'Smooth Criminal' by Michael Jackson Video edited by CFJ Some things I wanted to say by this video are: 1) Fred Astaire was such a great dancer and he could dance beautifully to every type of music... even to a MJ song. 2) MJ is not an originator but such a great successor who inherits various musical legacies and creates his own things. The video features scenes from the Girl Hunt ballet in The Band Wagon (1953) starring Astaire and Cyd Charisse, 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!). My initial idea was using also Yolanda And The Thief (1945) where Astaire appeared with the same costume, a white suit, hat and a blue shirt, but I eventually omitted it. Michael Kidd worked with Janet in the Alright vid in 1990, featuring Cyd Charisse (in the red dress!), the Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway. If you want to see Astaire at the top of his game, watch his '30s and early '40s films. Jul 1, 2009 11:14 AM

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