Below, author Nora Johnson’s object of teenage lust in An American in Paris (MGM, 1951). I wonder if he’s shouty scary at rehearsals.

Above Oscar: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Yuja Wang in Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F


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