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NME Video and Skins Radio: Freddie Interview

Freddie Mclair's got bags of potential but no va va vooom

Limp Bizkit Backstage At Sonisphere

We talk exclusively to Fred Durst and Wes Borland from Limp Bizkit backstage at Sonisphere about getting the old band back together and what the future holds for them now.

YouTube Fred Astaire Videos

Fred Astaire (04:35)

Puttin on the ritz EDIT: 10/15/08 IT'S OVER 1000000!!!! Seriously, though, thank you all for viewing and rating, and I now have over 100 subscribers because of this video! THANK YOU ALL!

The Band Wagon - Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse (02:25)

EDIT: At the age of 86 years old, CYD CHARISSE died yesterday...REST IN PEACE CYD... This is a part of "The Band Wagon" movie. I love Fred Astaire movies and i specially love this scene... Hope you like it! The Band...

Fred Astaire - Puttin' On the Ritz (DVD Quality) (04:49)

Blue Skies - 1946.

Swing Time - Rogers and Astaire (02:26)

In this Swing Time clip, Lucky, Astaire, saves Penny's, Rogers, job by showing how much she has taught him. The first true dance number with the two, the other being with Fred fumbling and pretending to be a terrible...

Fred Astaire (01:18)

Puttin' On The Ritz. One Fred Astaire good, several Fred Astaires better?

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Fred Astaire Biography

Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.

According to another major innovator in filmed dance, Gene Kelly, "The history of dance on film begins with Astaire." Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.

He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

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