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...fall. To film the show, Fonteyn, 59, visited a ballet school in Peking, chatted with Fred Astaire in Los Angeles and inter viewed Nijinsky's daughter in Manhattan. Outside Athens, she saw the remains of a "temple of dance" built in 1904 by flamboyant American Dancer Isadora Duncan. "Isadora had a passion for children, and now the Greek children run in and out of the ruins," says Dame Margot. "They don't care whose house...
...Quentin Crisp, queer before it became chic, is doomed by his undersized member, a homosexual leper. With his speed and Quaaludes, his chiffons and Estee Lauder and bridge games and Egyptian groupies, Sutherland is Holleran's one truly brilliant creation. Sutherland provides much of the bitchy humor that makes Dancer, if nothing else, one of the funnier books of the year...
...DANCER COMES REPLETE with the usual flaws of a first novel. Holleran is at all times too obvious; similies dominate metaphors; he tells too much. For example, he writes...
...first novels are flawless, and fewer still have achieved what Holleran has with Dancer. His vision is often engrossing, his dialogue always sharp, his Sutherland wonderfully memorable. Holleran takes us into a world most of us will never see, and makes it real--an old-fashioned praise, but still a valid one. Now he faces that most difficult of enterprises for an American novelist--surviving his success...
...unerring sense of propriety's absurdity and no holds barred. "It's real, and it's natural--there's so much innate pleasure in it for them, which is contagious," says Matson. But don't be fooled. Once you've seen Pilobolus, or Matson's book, neither a dancer's body nor your own will ever look quite the same again...