"And we're recruiting an old mate from the early days. Paul Barker is going to rejoin the band and we're going to record together and that will be our last one."
Follow The Fleet - " I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket"
I love all of the Astaire/Rogers musicals, but I think I have the biggest soft spot for Follow the Fleet. And it’s not JUST because I’m a sucker for a sailor suit. Bake and Sherry are both unabashedly working-class, for one, and almost all of the usual romantic misunderstandings are reserved for the other couple. For the most part, Bake and Sherry are like Benedick and Beatrice: the single biggest stumbling block to their happy ending is that they’re too much alike and too proud to admit they love and need each other. And once all the other plotlines are tied up, they kiss and make up because they’re just both tired of fighting it.
Plus, we get to see Fred play the piano and Ginger play the clown in a tap routine, and it’s fun. (Keep an eye out for Betty Grable and Lucille Ball in bit parts. Ginger’s mother was Lucy’s acting coach.)
Michael Jackson reportedly loved to watch the movie Fantasia in the plush scarlet-covered seats in his newly renovated Hayvenhurst home. He also enjoyed watching Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, Invitation to the Dance, Royal Wedding, as well as Katharine Hepburn's Little Women and Bringing Up Baby. Other Hepburn films he liked were Adam's Rib, Love Among the Ruins, and The African Queen. He didn't like Suddenly, Last Summer.
He was reported to have watched David Lynch's The Elephant Man in the early 80s when it was released, and the TV mini-series Roots by Alex Haley.
Michael had long been impressed by shows such as On the Town and West Side Story, saying he admired Hermes Pan, who choreographed some of Fred Astaire's films.
As Sandy Duncan told People Extra: "You could put [Fred Astaire] behind a scrim and see his silhouette and you'd know who he was."
Jackson loved Shirley Temple films too. He'd seen all of her films, including Wee Willie Winkie, The Little Colonel, and Baby Burlesks.
Jackson wanted to be in movies, and was one of the only huge music stars to surround himself with figures of Old Hollywood.
okay im sorry but Hermie is ABSOLUTELY faking his crushes on Scary and Link. he is a goddamn theater kid which means he needs attention more than anything in the world, and that desire more often than not centers around Normal (ESPECIALLY considering "i like you too," which is about attention regardless of whether or not he was lying). literally hes doing the queer high school equivalent of pulling a girl's pigtails at recess by telling Normal about his "crushes" so that Normal will get upset and pay more attention to him. its the same tactic he used with the mascot costume all over again