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...have to dance more?" thought Cynthia Gregory with a sinking feeling as the orchestra began to play again following her final bow. But no. The music was I Could Have Danced All Night, and the entire company was singing along in a warmly sentimental finish to a gala honoring Gregory's 20 years with American Ballet Theater. The exhausted ballerina had already danced her way through highlights reprising her glittering career. "With everything I did there were wonderful memories," said Gregory, 38, after a 15-minute standing ovation. "At one point I got tired, but then I got a second...
...Golan admitted, the two stars had not even been approached to appear in the film -- but then again, they hadn't said no.) In any case, Godard by now should be accustomed to negative responses. His new film, a handsome, typically perverse antidrama called Detective, was booed at ; its gala screening, and as he was about to walk into a press conference, the director received a tart surprise: a pie in the face. The culprit was, reportedly, a man outraged by Godard's previous film, Hail Mary, a somewhat irreverent modernization of the nativity story (Mary is portrayed...
...quite nicely, finishing fourth. Down south in Sardinia, Diana took first place in the eyes of charmed Italians, who were treated to a profusion of lovely clothing changes at each of the dozens of stops. The only stir was caused by what she didn't wear to a gala at Milan's La Scala: a stunning gold lame creation that the Princess modestly eschewed for a more conventional gown. "When people are guiding you, they sometimes touch bare flesh," Diana explained later. "It's rather embarrassing...
...September 1986, Harvard will throw itself a 350th birthday party, promising to attract thousands of the nation's richest, most conservative, and most elite for a gala a la the Royal Wedding...
...partied out," said Sally Alcorn, a member of the Harvard Square Business Association. In recent months she has had to smile through two I-stop openings, the Harvard Square Winterfest and the gala inauguration of the Charles Square Hotel and complex...