{"id":11191,"date":"2025-09-09T07:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/11191\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:11:15","slug":"movie-dancing-set-to-steely-dan-why-evolution-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/11191\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie dancing set to Steely Dan \u2013 Why Evolution Is True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan posted this video on his column this week as a \u201cmental health break\u201d. It comprises old movie clips of great dancing, all set to Steely Dan\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Only_a_Fool_Would_Say_That\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Only a fool would say that.<\/a>\u201d Wikipedia says this about the song:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly a Fool Would Say That\u201d is a song with lyrics rumoured to mock\u00a0John Lennon\u2019s\u00a01971 song \u201c<a title=\"Imagine (song)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imagine_(song)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Imagine<\/a>\u201c. In 2024,\u00a0American Songwriter\u00a0claimed that the lyrics were chiding Lennon for \u201cbeing out of touch with reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s a great song, and there\u2019s some great dancing below. How many can you recognize? Still, I prefer the originals. The first clip of Astaire and Rita Hayworth is one of my favorites (see the original, \u201d The Shorty George\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WUhhKELUxB0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). And I hope you recognize Cagney in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v4ze_OB1I5k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankee Doodle Dandy<\/a>.\u201d Finally, one of the greatest movie performances of dance was the Nicholas Brothers, shown young and old. The original is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fNKRm6H-qOU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t dance like this no more.\u00a0 And why has dancing disappeared from the movies? Would people rather see car chases and shootings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Sullivan posted this video on his column this week as a \u201cmental health break\u201d. It comprises old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-11191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}