I had just finished watching “The Band Wagon” when I heard the news that director Stanley Donen had passed away at the age of 94. Obviously, the aforementioned Fred Astaire musical wasn’t directed by Donen but it was clearly influenced by his majestic reinterpretation of what the musical should be like.
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So, those of you who went this weekend: what did you make of it? Where do you land on Holmes, and — most fascinatingly — on Billy Evans, her sniffling, controlling, weirdo husband?