[‘As crazy as it was’: Reporters recall the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan feeding frenzy]Henie was 5 years old, the story goes, when her older brother, Leif, got a pair of ice skates for his birthday. “She absolutely radiated joy on the ice,” said Roy Blakey, who runs the website IceStage Archive, a seven-decade study of ice skating on the silver screen. She retired from competitive skating after the 1936 games and debated turning professional. Instead, she took her ice show routine to Hollywood’s Polar Ice Palace for film’s brightest stars and deepest pockets to see her in person. “Stars and stars — and every production boss in the business.”The lights dimmed as Henie glided to the middle of the ice.

Source: Washington Post February 21, 2018 21:00 UTC