Word: ballets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that hard-won post proved too pedestrian for Harris. The job entails overseeing corporate filings, concealed-weapon permits and the state's election procedures. And so in her thousand-dollar power suits, Harris turned the office into a glamorous, globe-trotting Florida p.r. firm that lured business and ballet to the peninsula state...
Instead, she has focused on lavish business trips to New York, Brazil and Australia to drum up commerce and culture. She is proud of bringing international culture like Mexico's Ballet Folklorico to Florida. "You can't believe how hard I work," she told the St. Petersburg Times last month. But a high-ranking state Democratic official, who was on the phone with Harris when the Florida recount was ordered on election night, says he was angry about her apparent foot dragging "until we realized that it was because she really didn't know what to do at that point...
Samuel H. Perwin '04's wonderfully overdone movie star Vittorio Vidal brings charisma, vitality and a commanding presence to a slow first act. Aside from a clever rendition of the classic "Hey Big Spender,"-a ballet bar has never been corrupted so well-the pace of the first act does not get going until Perwin arrives and provides Flader's Charity with an object for her romantic frustrations...
...Ballot Ballet...
...breakthrough role as Helga, the Teutonic man killer in the 1996 shoot-'em-up flick 2 Days in the Valley, magazines and newspapers have delighted in telling her story: how she modeled and danced her way off a farm in South Africa, how a bad knee ended her ballet career, how she was discovered by a Hollywood talent manager in a bank. Despite a large body of work, including noticeable turns in 1997's The Devil's Advocate and last year's Best Picture Oscar nominee The Cider House Rules, Theron's celebrity far outweighs her box office. She gets...