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...final day of shooting, Nonzee arrives spot on time, taking small steps in his prissy, dancerish walk. Dressed in cuffed chinos, Abercrombie sweatshirt and red bandana, the director comes across as half-ballerina, half-bad boy. Then he does a tricky little act: he claims to be uncertain as to how to film the lesbian scene. His two actresses are uncertain too, and they sit down with the director to discuss the angles, the actions, what they're expected to perform. Pataravarin Timkul, 23, televison star and daughter of one of Thailand's most famous actresses, is definitely nervous...
...larger oils of flowers, often painted from bouquets that friends had brought him in his illness, there are darker notes--sometimes literally so, in the enveloping blackness of their backgrounds, against which the voluptuous white petals of a peony stand out like the skirts of a dying ballerina. In a late painting of lilac blossoms in a vase, you can feel the thick darkness--the darkness of Goya, whose work Manet adored--closing implacably on the fragile white blooms. This may have been as near to deliberate allegory as Manet, the arch-Realist, would...
DIED. DAME NINETTE DE VALOIS, 102, formidable dance teacher, choreographer and founder of Britain's Royal Ballet; in London. De Valois was a classical ballerina by training, but as a director she often mounted wildly experimental productions, sending dancers to perform barefoot. A writer and an art lover, she sometimes brought drawings to life on her stage: Bar aux Folies-Bergere (1934), for instance, was inspired by a Manet painting of a Parisian lounge...
...Winners ANNA PAVLOVA And she's still skinny. Leading ballerina returns to Russia after 70-year absence?in an urn ALTHEA GIBSON Black '50s tennis champ gets her mug on cereal box. When will Ilie Nastase get his due? SIEGFRIED AND ROY Las Vegas illusionists and tiger fetishists sign lifetime contract. Is there...
...sense inventing ourselves. In a way, it's hard to say there's anything more than surfaces, that kind of manifestation of fantasy in the surface. "The idea of fantasy is a recurring theme in Wang's work. In another photograph, a young girl in a ballerina dress sits on a counter in the middle of a kitchen. "It's about fantasy," says Wang "the fantasy of femininity...