She takes him to a fancy party, then doesn't want to dance with him for ... well ... for no good reason, really.

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You could stand there, Christian, Jew, Muslim or atheist, and watch him dance for hours, with the swallows flitting overhead and the smell of centuries-old incense in your nostrils.

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Walken is a musical pro, and when Travolta joins him in a dance, tentatively but with blooming grace, the performance comes together.

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He testified that Simpson told him that he had given up attempts to reconcile with Nicole Brown Simpson but that he didn't want his girlfriend, Paula Barbieri, to go with him to his daughter's dance recital on June 12.

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Growing up, McBride remembers his mother showing him dance steps by the Temptations and seeing his father, bassist Lee Smith, performing with Cuban-born percussionist Mongo Santamaria.

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But scrum-half Simpson reacted sharpest to deny the Welsh star, smothering him and rolling him onto his back with the sort of two-step rarely seen on any dance floor.

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