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BORN. To Natalia Makarova, 37, Russian ballerina who defected to the West in 1970, and Edward Karkar, 45, an electronics manufacturer: a son, their first child; in San Francisco. Name: Andre Michel...
...legs just know what to do. But my allegro dancing wasn't enough. I had a kind of breakthrough a year ago. But my arms can still be lifeless. My head is not always right." She has been teaching her role in Emeralds to Ghislaine Thesmar, a French ballerina who is as elegant in a Gallic way as Ashley is in her very American style. "Ghislaine's arms are romantic and fluid," muses Ashley. "I just don't have that quality yet." She is right. But the odds are that she will find her own equivalent...
...come up with the best solution yet to this dilemma in his film The Turning Point. He avoids this undesirable trade-off by casting a competent actress who cannot pirouette her way out of a paper bag (Anne Bancroft) in one of the two lead roles--a middle-aged ballerina clearly in decline--and supporting her with two genuine ballet stars (Mikhail Baryshnikov and Leslie Browne) in significant if minor roles. Realism and a respect for the irreplaceable skills of a tested movie star blend nicely in Ross' polished parable about the world of ballet and the thoughts about...
...Turning Point centers on the bittersweet relationship of Deedee Rodgers (Shirley MacLaine), a one-time aspiring ballerina who gave up the stage for a family, and Emma Jacklin (Bancroft), Deedee's former friend and rival who pursued a career in dance to rise to the top of her profession as the prima ballerina of the best ballet company in the States. They reunite after a long spell of separation when Emma's touring company hits Oklahoma City, where Deedee, the frustrated dancer, spends her middle-aged, middle-American existence raising her three kids and running a ballet school with...
...less noticeably nervous (she'd stopped bouncing her wrists, an infallible sign)." Of Edward Villella in Pulcinella: "He goes through the piece like a speeding crab, as loose as Groucho." Of Nureyev in Le Corsaire: "At the end ... he slams himself to the floor at the ballerina's feet and yearns upward from the small of his back. No one else does it so well." One is ready to go out at once and see Nureyev in this weary old war horse...