There is really not much that I can add to this:

I Knew Gene Kelly. The President Is No Gene Kelly. – New York Times
Re “Soft Shoe in Hard Times” (column, March 16):

Surely it must have been a slip for Maureen Dowd to align the artistry of my late husband, Gene Kelly, with the president’s clumsy performances. To suggest that “George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly” represents not only an implausible transformation but a considerable slight. If Gene were in a grave, he would have turned over in it.

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Patricia Ward Kelly
Los Angeles, March 16, 2008

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