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BORN. To William Hurt, 32, intense, hunky, blond movie idol (Altered States, Body Heat), and Sandra Jennings, 26, dancer with the New York City Ballet: their first child, a son; in New York City. Name: Alexander Devon. Weight...
Macbeth, however, had problems. The production was vehemently booed on its opening night in November by a segment of the audience that found the sight of witches flying through the air on broomsticks risible, the presence of a nude dancer inappropriate and the arrival of white-clad ballerinas during Macbeth's dream sequence comical. Some prominent critics were outraged: Donal Henahan, in the New York Times, said Macbeth "may just be the worst new production ... in modern [Met] history." Hall's attempt to place the opera in a mid-19th century theatrical context was daring, but sometimes miscalculated...
MARRIED. Steve Van Zandt, 32, rock guitarist for the E Street Band, and Dancer Maureen Santoro, 32; both for the first time; in New York City. The minister was rock-'n'-roll legend Little Richard (Evangelist Richard Penniman), the best man Van Zandt's sometime boss Bruce Springsteen...
While dancing in a revival of On Your Toes at Washington's Kennedy Center, Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 42, heard the crash too late. Two lengthy pipes used as scenery ballast fell to the stage, striking the dancer. Dr. Max Cohen, 42, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine, who had been sitting front row center, treated her for a fractured shoulder blade and a 3½-in. gash across the scalp. "She is in some ways fortunate to have survived," says Cohen. "It could easily have been more serious." Makarova will probably require...
...Kirstein the matter was clear and simple, like everything else about Martins. "It's awfully hard to ignore the fact that he looks the way he does," says Kirstein. "He is like a Cartier object. There is a moral correspondence between psychology and physique. He is a heroic dancer, with a heroic stance. And his behavior is rather heroic...