[78-L] Quoting Ginger Rogers and ignoring Glenn Miller

[Martha]

  One of those script writers must like Fred and Ginger movies !  


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From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:29 PM
Subject: [78-L] Quoting Ginger Rogers and ignoring Glenn Miller


> With all the discussion about pick yourself up, dust yourself off, 
> nobody followed up with a note about what was said at at least 5 of the 
> Inaugural Balls last night.   He introduced the new First Lady for a 
> dance saying "She does everything I do except she does it in high heels 
> and backwards."  That is supposedly what Ginger Rogers described what 
> she did during her partnership with Fred Astaire -- where she felt she 
> was considered as the secondary part of the team.  The President did 
> mess the line up the first time he used it by forgetting to include the 
> backwards part which removed any reference to dancing out of the joke.