Can't Watch This Without Smiling

[filkertom]

What links do you have to stuff that makes the smile widen, the toes tap, the heart sing?

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[boywizard.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Tom, for brightening my day!

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

I am inexplicably pleased by silly dances around the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

I just watched that 5 times straight. Bravo for posting it.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

Well, since you mentioned tapping toes . . .

First, here's one from 1942's Ship Ahoy. It starts with some singing by Bert Lahr, Tommy Dorsey, and a young man named Red Skelton. A minute and a half in, the focus turns to drummer Buddy Rich, and the best female tapper the movies have ever seen, Eleanor Powell.



Second, from 1989, Tap. Cheesy movie, great dances. This is Gregory Hines, Sammy Davis Jr., and a bunch of tap legends in the amazing "challenge" scene.

[sveethot.livejournal.com]

I was fortunate enough to see Gregory Hines live in Denver. My friend and I were sitting in the 2nd row, right side of the theatre. He came dancing out of the right wing, danced a few steps, made eye contact with me and lost his place. He then corrected himself and danced across the stage, but returned to "my" side and basically stayed there.

You wanna know about one hell of a ego boost. My friend was thoroughly pissed with me because we'd gone because she was the one with a crush on him.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

This one with Danny Kay stealing the scene and then getting tossed out of the theater, from "Up in Arms"...brilliant stuff!

[tcgtrf.livejournal.com]

Here's a site with a series of artist's renditions of *real* extra-solar planetary systems that have been discovered over the last ten years.

http://extrasolar.spaceart.org/extrasol.html

The star-stuff that dreams are made of...

Tom Trumpinski

[droewyn.livejournal.com]

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of things Improv Anywhere would do. I will find some links to them later on, but good stuff.

[wingus.livejournal.com]

As a big Zelda fan, this wonderful thing brightened up a horrible day for me when a friend of mine showed it to me.

[dysprog.livejournal.com]

The computer era has really given a whole new meaning to the term "One Man Band"

[xophersquall.livejournal.com]

That is AMAZING!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Ah, good old-fashioned ableism. Thank god GLEE got an able-bodied actor to play a disabled kid or they couldn't do vids like this.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Well, that was the first episode I saw, and I admit it was very effective.

[sveethot.livejournal.com]

My google-fu has failed me, but Sterling Holloway singing and dancing She was a china tea-cup and he was just a mug. From International House w/William Claude Dukenfield.

More Danny Kaye - The Pellet with the Poison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS75NtlH3gI

[smparadox.livejournal.com]

Actually, I found this scene very bittersweet in the original episode. Since at the end, Artie was right back in the wheelchair where he started off, watching his girlfriend walk off to take care of something...
Now, watching him finally get to play football - and make a touchdown - that made me smile!

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

Zatoichi is a pretty gory Japanese period piece about a blind samurai... so it's odd that they end it with a music festival with tap... err clog dancing. The sheer enthusiasm of the dancing always gets me excited, so enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8QwOoH2eos

[xophersquall.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THIS! My favorite GLEE moment. I can watch this over and over.