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SEEKING DIVORCE. David Merrick, 71, hit-making Broadway producer, from Karen Prunczik, 26, former tap dancer in his blockbuster 42nd Street and his fourth wife; after nine months of marriage; in New York City. Merrick also filed a petition revealing what had been strenuously denied: that he suffered a stroke 2½ months ago and has not yet recovered his power of speech; he is seeking a conservator to protect his interests...
...Brother has arrived a year early, in the form of a lithe young dancer from Pittsburgh. From every electronic orifice in the U.S. just now-from radio and stereo speakers, from the projectors in 1,140 movie theaters and out of the 24-hour mouth of MTV-comes one unavoidable, irresistible message: Flashdance...
...been in a four-year slump. Says Jack Kiernan, executive vice president of lucky PolyGram records: "A dealer in Chicago just told me, 'It feels like 1978 all over again.'" That was the year of Paramount's Saturday Night Fever, another movie about a working-class dancer, which grossed $258 million worldwide and sold more than 30 million double albums. "It's too early to call Flashdance another Saturday Night Fever," says Paramount's Gordon Weaver, "but it looks as if it might become that kind of phenomenon...
...discreet rock-'n'-roll stripteases. Alex lives in a loft about the size of SoHo, where she rehearses her dream: to win a job with the local ballet company. She gets it, helped by some slow-motion and quick-cut camera effects-and by an unbilled French dancer who played stunt double for some of Beals...
...enthusiasms included the paintings of Braque, the writings of Pushkin, the politics of Eisenhower and the comedy of Jack Benny. But there was never any doubt about George Balanchine's greatest love. "I am a dancer," he once said, "body, soul and brain." When he died last week at 79, Balanchine was more than that; he was possibly the greatest choreographer of the century. He brilliantly synthesized ballet's elegant classical heritage with the explosive athletic energy of modern dance and the show-biz turns of jazz and tap. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, America...