that's entertainment! ii

January 5: That's Entertainment! II The second That's Entertainment movie was cohosted by Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. They only used clips that hadn't been shown in the first one, which meant they had to go to lesser known films, which made it -- well much more interesting for me, maybe not as enjoyable for a casual viewer. The part I did not like was when Kelly and Astaire sing new, lame lyrics to old songs. It was nice when they danced though. According to the intro Kelly didn't want to do it, and Astaire insisted that if they didn't, everyone would assume they were so feeble they couldn't. They were getting up there -- Astaire was 77 at the time -- and it's pretty amazing to see him dancing, even at a more subdued pace.