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Cione, 64, is certain he has another smash hit in the offing: "At my age, I'm too old to turn out a flop." His confidence is justifiable. A lifelong dancer, choreographer and director, he retired to Hawaii in the '50s after making a million with a chain of successful dance studios on the mainland. But the show-biz bug was still with him. When he viewed a lackluster show at a Honolulu nightclub in 1958, he got the owner's consent to work his magic and turned it into a winning act. To give it that extra bounce, Cione...
...many differences between Prince and his predecessors (he's shorter, he's a better dancer), one thing stands out: Prince stuck around, working all his wizardry on home turf. Fitzgerald and Dylan took off for the East and the high life. Prince stayed put and made high life right there. He's a local boy who's still on the scene. In fact, he is the scene...
...major obstacle in pursuing change remains. As Gilligan sees it, the language of our culture "hasn't been able to represent difference without hierarchy. For us to do that, it is really necessary to have a change in language." A former dancer, she reaches for a musical metaphor to suggest how the contrasting voices of men and women might blend. "One can think of the oboe and the clarinet as different," she says. "Yet when they play together, there is a sound that's not either one of them, but it doesn't dissolve the identity of either instrument...
...live animals, including Flora, a baby elephant, and Clarke's own horse, Mr. Grey. She maintains that they're being used as "sentient creatures" rather than beasts of burden or embarrassed icons. Finishing the work, which focuses on mankind's domination of nature, has given the former modern dancer little chance to use the $285,000 MacArthur fellowship that she won in July. Says Clarke: "When the call came, I was so busy I had my assistant take a message." While getting the money was nice, in her business the real reward doesn't come until opening night...
...distanced. The girlhood scenes are played for easygoing farce and shot in black and white. Then the film bursts into snapshot color when Sonja falls in love with her teacher (Robert Giggenbach). Her hometown's streets and churches are stylized back projections. The Nasty Girl moves like an eccentric dancer, ever shifting its pace and mood, never losing its poise...