Swing Time

Boulevard is one of countless alternative papers in the LA area and I don't mean to beat up on it--the writers aren't paid enough (though they're paid more than bloggers). But the error I'm about to mention is of a type one sees too often--a carelessness in chronology; an ignorance that says "it was years ago, so who cares if I'm off by a decade or two."

This is from the "Movie Talk" column in the April issue:

...Gray Matters [is] as whacky romantic comedy opening with a ballroom dance sequence [...] reminiscent of Ginger Rodgers [sic] and Fred Astaire in those 1940's musicals...

It's true the duo reteamed in 1949 for one last film, but the Astaire/Rogers musicals, one of the glories of the cinema, are a 1930s phenomenon. A political pundit who wrote about the Great Depression of the 1940s would not be taken seriously. Is it too much to ask entertainment scribes get it right?