Posted on 12/15/2020 7:32:00 AM PST by Cecily
Ann Reinking, a dancer, actor and Tony Award-winning choreographer who performed on Broadway for nearly three decades, where she was also known for her long association with Bob Fosse and his work, died on Saturday. She was 71.
Ms. Reinking died in her sleep in a hotel room in the Seattle area, where she was visiting her older brother, said Dahrla King, her sister-in-law. The cause was not yet known, she said.
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I used to sell hi-fi and video at a store in Bellevue Square around 1980. This very attractive woman came in looking for a VCR. We had a pretty long talk about movies, lie etc. before she bought and left. It was Ann Reinking.
She was a very nice lady. At least she was to me.
Another Covid casualty. /sarc
There has always been an asthetically pleasing side to american decadence.
First film I saw her in as a kid was “Annie.” I thought she was going to be a big film star, but she never quite took off. She still acquired legendary status in the theater thanks to Bob Fosse. RIP.
I met her once and she was beautiful and classy!
” At least she was to me.”
Life coulda been worse...
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She was georgous in the farce Micki & Maude, with Dudley Moore, Amy Irving, and the great Wallace Shawn as Dr. Fibel: “I don’t care who knows, Mary. You’re my woman and I’m your man.” (He was not saying this to Reinking!)
She was so talented and beautiful. May she rest in peace.
Me, too. Unforgettable! RIP
OUTSTANDING dancer.
I remember her in Mickie and Maude with Dudley Moore. Forgot about Annie though.
Despite being somewhat panned, I thought everyone turned in good, if not great, performances in “Annie.” Reinking got to show off her dance moves. Carol Burnett was superb. Tim Curry was sublime (I thought he was far superior in this than in “Rocky Horror”), perhaps his best performance ever.
I actually had a terrible crush at the time on the actress who played the title role, Aileen Quinn. Although it was on the actress, not when she was outfitted as the character and with the awful red Jewfro wig that made her look like Gene Wilder’s progeny. I was really surprised her career never took off in film and tv as I thought Reinking’s would.
I haven’t seen this or any of the other film/TV versions of Annie. How do you think they stack up (if you have seen the others)?
Billyboy will give his opinion of the other “Annie” (or “Blannie”) abominations. I tend to share it. The only serious problem I had with the ‘82 version, which I didn’t realize until much later, was the sycophantic treatment they gave to FDR and Annie being a disciple of his. FDR should’ve been the villain and Annie a Harding-Coolidge girl.
The 1982 film is actually a well made movie and John Huston did a surprisingly good job for being in the awkward position to direct a "children's musical". The problem of FDR being portrayed as the hero of the film stem from the fact it was based on the 1977 Broadway musical.
The Broadway musical completely REVERSED the original intent of Harold Gray's "Annie" source material and was far more blatant than the movie in its "big government liberal policies good, free-market conservativism bad" message. Two of its most overt political songs, the sarcastic "We'd like to thank you, Mr. Hoover" and "We're getting a New Deal for Christmas", didn't even make the movie and were replaced with new benign songs like "Let's Go to the Movies". (the writer of the movie also tried to "fix" the ridiculous premise of Daddy Warbucks being pro-FDR by adjusting the screenplay so Warbucks dislikes and distrusts FDR throughout the movie, only "coming around" very reluctantly at the end, to please Annie) The Broadway Musical didn't even use any of the storylines from the original comics, it came up with its own unique storyline and also most of the supporting characters were invented for the Broadway show instead of being part of the original comic strip cast of characters. Had the 1977 broadway show been around in the 1940s, it was so one-sided pro-FDR and pro-New Deal he could have used it as a two hour campaign ad.
The 1982 movie was about the best you could get from that putrid Broadway material (although the 1995 TV movie does do some things better than the '82 version). The problem is that EVERY version of Annie since 1977 has used the Broadway show (especially since the songs "Tomorrow" and "A Hard Knock Life" as the main source material, rather than use anything from the original Harold Gray comics that were written from the 1920s-1940s)
The 2014 movie is an abomination and adds SJW propaganda on top of the already existing problem of leftist economic propaganda (all of which will likely go over kids heads anyway). Glad it bombed. The 2014 movie is about as far away from the source material as it gets.
Curiously, a recent list of "top 25 redheaded characters than SJW Hollywood has blackwashed" missed Little Orphan Annie, which should have been the most obvious example.
If any franchise needed a "Reboot", it would be this one.
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