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...battered, flattened, ridiculed - and still plays on, as much for the audience as for himself. (After all, who ends up paying for those $70,000-a-minute commercials - and those $100,000 bonuses?) In the process, the viewer receives a game of infinite hue and complexity, an amalgam of ballet, combat, chess and mugging. No matter how fine his TV reception, no beer-and-armchair quarterback can hope to see the true game. For all the paraphernalia, the tube rarely shows an overview; pass patterns and geometric variations are lost in a kaleidoscope of closeups and crunches...
...value of books and of experiences. Mayman describes her father, who died when she was 10 years old, as a "book-oriented, dashing Brazilian who wore white linen suits and silk shirts and who played polo." Her mother is "bohemian in a funny way," and has taught fencing and ballet. "My parents met while they were horseback riding, and were engaged in a week," Mayman said...
...AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE repertory. I saw these dudes in New York City this summer: I'd seen Jerome Robbins's Goldberg Variations the year before and figured I might enjoy getting into ballet. This American Ballet outfit speedily disabused me. "Diana and Actaeon" is a particularly good number to miss. 8 p.m., tonight and tomorrow at the Loeb...
...place for a few minutes, it is finally frustrating not to see the essence of their thing, which is a blur. Arthur Penn has some extremely pretty pictures of pole vaulters slowly soaring, but when he cuts a lot of vaults together to form a sort of aerial ballet, we are inevitably reminded that Leni Riefenstahl did the same thing, using divers, 36 years ago. It is disappointing to see a man of Penn's caliber ripping off an old master...
Graffiti's collection of cars makes the movie a must for any greaser or reformed greaser. The driving on the strip raises cruising to the level of ballet...