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...Acquaintances" and one of those 1930s musicals in which the kid from the chorus becomes a star overnight. The old acquaintances in this case are actually old rivals-ballet dancers who chose different roads many years back and must now deal with the consequences. The ambitious one (Anne Bancroft) has become a great star, is now fading, and fighting it. Her friend (Shirley MacLaine) may have been as talented, but she married, had children, is running a ballet school in Oklahoma. Shirley has always wondered whether she too might have been famous if she had stayed on with the Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gotta Dance | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

That is simply ludicrous. More believably-indeed, touchingly-the two older women are granted, through the girl, the opportunity to come to terms with some unresolved issues. Bancroft, a would-be mentor, must fight through her resentment of youth and that freshness of talent for which no amount of hard-won skill can totally compensate. As for MacLaine, she comes to see that she cannot live through her daughter the life she did not choose. Both get a chance to work out their previously unspoken grudges, on the night of the girl's première, in a knockdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gotta Dance | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

This provides Bancroft with a suitable I climax for a brave, bravura performance. Lined in the face, skinny to the point of emaciation, febrile in manner, she tiers the definitive portrayal of an aging star. MacLaine matches her in their big scene, but is perhaps too conscious of her nice-girl screen image in the rest of the picture. She is entitled to more desperation than she is willing to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gotta Dance | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

Among such films scheduled for release in the next weeks: The Turning Point, a study of two dancers, with Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft; a version of Lillian Hellman's short story Julia, with Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave; and One Sings, The Other Doesn't, a French work that will open the New York Film Festival this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...American Republic. The book swiftly became the standard by which competing histories were measured. Now, just as an abridged and updated version of the Morison-Commager classic appears, there comes a new contender: The Great Republic, written by six scholars-five of them winners of Pulitzer or Bancroft prizes. Their work is handsomely amplified with hundreds of black-and-white and duotone photographs, paintings and detailed maps, and interspersed with pictorial essays in sumptuous color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: America, America | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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