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...paths of ballet companies are apparently no less star-crossed than those of lovers. Despite the fairly plentiful literature of full-length works available, both A.B.T. and Joffrey are staging expensive, opulent productions & based on Shakespeare's tragedy and set to Sergei Prokofiev's marvelous score. The Joffrey version premiered in Washington last Dec. 12, and A.B.T.'s followed it into the Kennedy Center last week...
There are sound reasons for such a project. Full-length ballets do better at the box office than evenings of shorter pieces. The Joffrey, never a company in robust financial health, turned naturally to the work of the late John Cranko because the Joffrey had success when it staged his Taming of the Shrew. Similarly, A.B.T. went to MacMillan, who signed on five months ago as "artistic associate" to Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov. Each organization claimed ignorance of the other's plans until it was too late to change them. The result is that audiences in Washington, Los Angeles...
...dull business, the only people likely to read the acknowledgments in most books are either insomniacs or the ones who are mentioned and thanked by the author for their help. Occasionally, though, these dutiful expressions of gratitude can yield useful information about the works they precede. This first full-length biography of T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) is a case in point. After acknowledging away for nearly two pages, Peter Ackroyd, an English critic and poet, concludes with a terse paragraph: "I am forbidden by the Eliot estate to quote from Eliot's published work, except for purposes of fair...
...former Canadian bureau chiefs are now based in New York City: Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan (Ottawa, 1968-71), Deputy Chief William Mader (Ottawa, 1973-76) and Senior Editor Henry Muller (Vancouver, 1971-73). Their continuing interest in the U.S.'s northern neighbor helped give impetus to our full-length story on the state of Canada and its politics...
...with John Huston while at work on the script of The African Queen. It was too late for a prince of excess to slow down. He went on spinning out great ideas for the future, as he always had. At one time, a partial list of projects included two full-length historical films. One would concern Tories vs. Loyalists, the other the age of revolution. Both would be "mystical," "Virgilian" epics of a "prenatal nation." These were in addition to an "antiCommunist manifesto," a "new form of movie short roughly equivalent to the lyric poem," and some "pieces of writing...