There are a generation of seniors who, when they are outside
and it is raining, picture themselves as Gene Kelly dancing and singing
with a big umbrella, swinging around a lamppost. They are the same ones
who many years ago walked out of a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie
picturing themselves as one or the other. When in a pool they were
Esther Williams and when it was snowing they were Sonia Heine . We fell in love with Cyd Charisse's never
ending legs and Rita Hayworth's cascading long red hair. We were Donald
O'Connor jumping over sofas or through doors. Whether we could carry a
note or not, dance a step or trip on our own feet, the old Hollywood
musicals made us all dancing, singing fools/stars if only in our head!
And so many more!
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"If people knew how hard I work, to gain my mastery,
it would not seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Italian Painter and Sculpter