 
Balletlover - Balletmania
written by Dep on 23.02. at 04:35:49 - as answer to: Re: Robbie Douglas in ballet class by Tom >> ballerinas wore tights!!! Just bare legs!! YEEEECHH!!!>> Robbie wore his gray tights and black ballet slippers. All in>> all I'd rate this episode a 7 out of 10. By the way, Robbie>> was not wearing a dance belt. He had "It" tucked between is>> legs!!!>Riddler, you *know* they never get these things right! Think>about all those girls in tutus in "Billy Elliot." (I've NEVER>seen adolescent girls in a responsibly managed ballet class>wearing tutus.) People in the video & movie racket just don't>give a damn. No dance belt & bare legs are about the level one>would expect.>Tom >>>A lot of TV shows have put their male characters in ballet for humorous effect, and they always go for the tights gag, don't they? There was that "Odd Couple" episode with Edward Villela where Tony Randall made his entrance in a rather bizarre ballet outfit, and got huge laughs (rather cheap, I thought, though I've always kind of admired Mr. Randall for the way he carried it off. He showed at least some love for dance in the show.) Mr. Villela was cool, but spent a lot of the show "explaining" to the audience that he was heterosexual ("Why'd you get into ballet, Richard?" "I wanted to meet GIRLS!"-nice sentiment, but he hit that note again and again, if I recall.)>>>Then there was a "Different Strokes" episode in which Gary Coleman takes a ballet class (I avoided that show like the plague, but my family was nuts about it. One night, I heard Dana Plato talking about ballet, and I was in there like a shot!) At one point, Dana gives Gary a gift of bright red tights and tells him that everyone at the recital will notice him in these. Costume designer? What costume designer? Wear whatever you like, kids!-Depon Answers to this message:
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