Fred Astaire and Michael Jackson mashup to Smooth Criminal
FRED ASTAIRE in SMOOTH CRIMINAL
Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron
Choreographed by Michael Kidd
'Smooth Criminal' by Michael Jackson
Video edited by CFJ
I
love both Astaire and Michael Jackson. I want young people to know
Astaire stuff, that is why I made this. The video features scenes from
the Girl Hunt ballet in The Band Wagon (1953) starring Astaire and Cyd
Charisse (those supreme legs!! The most perfect body a woman could
have. So sensual, so elegant), 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!).
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong but that doesn't stop it from being a great video mashup. For starters, Astaire was dreamy. Michael was always pretty creepy and it just got worse with time where as Astaire just got more fabulous.
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That was GREAT!! I'm a guy (ostensibly) so I don't watch a lot of anything that has dancing, so this was a neat little treat. Jackson creepiness aside, that's a great song. Cyd Charisse was totally hot, but did anyone else notice she was likely the inspiration for Jessica Rabbit? What with the femme fatal thing and the outfit being a dead ringer, I'm sure this was obvious to everyone else but me.
Posted by: AmbroseKalifornia | May 28, 2008 at 01:53 PM
Sorry, but if it's not the Alient Ant Farm version, I'm just not interested.
Posted by: Butter Chicken | May 28, 2008 at 04:32 PM
I swear I watched this at least 15 time since you showed to to me.
Posted by: AmbroseKalifornia | May 30, 2008 at 05:53 PM