Cyd Charisse

She's excellent.

She sort of gets forgotten a little bit when you look at Ginger Rogers or Sid Charisse or someone like that.

But...

The perfect vehicle for it is On the Town, as you say, Hal.

Yeah.

I've always been like a big fan of like Sid Charisse and old movie stars, Marilyn Monroe.

I just,

yeah,

But for now, I think it is the province of humanity.

Anyway, to the point, Megan sent an image of her dashing Sid, as in Sid Charisse, love it, wearing Chanel, pearls and a blazer.

And I died.

Megan, your Sid is gorgeous.

Okay.

And yes, I do have a little bit of bias, but like I'm telling you, we loved it.

But it doesn't feel like there is.

Those superstars of dance that are known for dance, even if they act and sing in musical movies, there's no Gene Kelly, there's no Fred Astaire, there's no Sid Charisse.

Ariana DeBose is probably one of the closer ones to it because, yes, she came through So You Think You Can Dance and then she obviously had a few ensemble roles and then Hamilton comes along and then West Side Story so she has become known or she became her star exploded because of dance but it's also her acting that won her the Oscar so she's become known for being an actor she's a film star she's not necessarily known anymore for being a straight-up dancer so if she continues and does more dance work then yes then she would be the number one dance superstar in the world I think

for us no it's heartbreaking because really all those dancers are like there's so many dancers that are so unbelievably extraordinary and deserve the world and you know what and just they turn up every day and they do their craft every day and i think you know you have to do it for yourself it's discipline like no other and they deserve massive applause and respect because they're fabulous

I don't mean, I don't mean to insult the legacy of Herschel Gordon Lewis, but I don't get the impression that a lot of thought or time or rewrites were put into the screenplays that he put together.

You didn't think that Connie Mason was his, like, Cyd Charisse or something? Okay.

No.

That's fine.

Well, the stars of the movie that weren't classic cinema stars, it was Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Terry Carr, Art Carney, who kinda qualifies, Phil Silvers, and Ron Leibman.

But the other stars in it who it wasn't their final, uh, performance, and just hold onto your hats, Alice Faye, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Lamour, Yvonne De Carlo, Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming, Cyd Charisse, Rory Calhoun, Ann Miller, Jackie Coogan, Broderick Crawford, Ricardo Montalban, Sterling Holloway, Aldo Ray, Nancy Walker, Gloria DeHaven, Tab Hunter, Fritz Feld, Fernando Lamas, Guy Madison, Patricia Morrison, Milton Berle, Keye Luke, and Walter Pidgeon, your Wal- your boy Walter.

My, my boy Walter.

They were all in this movie because that was sort of the gimmick.

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Cyd Charisse comes out in that sparkly black dress, and-

Oh my gosh

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