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...collectively crying "Yankee, come back!" On the Fourth of July this year, the Georges V Hotel in Pari sent champagne (Prince de Venoge, '65 to the rooms of all American guests. For the first time, at the Fête du Louvre, programs for the Paris Opera Ballet wer available in English. Some European hoteliers suggest to guests that they can have a picnic lunch à la Manet for fa less than a bistro meal à la carte. Fo their part, American tourists seem considerably more subdued than the caricature Midwesterner abroad who demanded his bill in "real money...
Even the singing and dancing is kind of a letdown--it's good but not fantastic, certainly not "classic"--with the exception of an extended balletic sequence called "Broadway Melody," in which Kelly and Cyd Charisse slink around with lithe, animal sensuality. The ballet is a self-contained entity that has nothing to do with the plot, and its unmistakable 50s jazziness is completely out of the movie's 20s context. Kelly seems to have had a good idea for a dance number and just thrown it in as lagniappe, but it stands up well...
Seen by millions of earth-bound television viewers against the dark background of space, the deliberate, exquisitely choreographed ballet of the two spacecraft looked like something out of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001. Gliding silently 140 miles high over the Atlantic, the U.S. Apollo made its slow, gingerly approach to the beetle-shaped Soviet Soyuz, whose features appeared so clearly on TV screens that sunlight could be seen glinting off its winglike solar panels. Then came the slight bump as the two ships, now somewhere over the North Atlantic, made contact. "We have succeeded!" Apollo Commander Tom Stafford...
...converted the tape into a five-hour play with no music. They put it on in workshop but decided it was too heavy. Bennett then called in his old friend and dance arranger, Marvin Hamlisch, who arranged the Oscar-winning score for The Sting. "I wanted an opera-ballet," Bennett explains. "The music only stops three times in the whole show. I wanted the music to stop for talk rather than a show where everyone talks, and then they sing and dance...
While American and Russian astronauts were preparing to go through their elaborate ballet in space, American and Russian diplomats were continuing their own interminable dance. Without any apparent hindrance from the Soviets, the U.S. prodded Israel and Egypt toward a second-stage agreement in the Sinai. As Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met in Geneva, there seemed new possibilities for agreement on nuclear arms limitation...