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...movie was no wow, Travolta's body was. The rebuilt dancer persuaded his trainer to go West and put up some of the money to get Isaacson started in a 1,200-sq.-ft. studio that features $50,000 worth of equipment and, no less important, wall-to-wall mirrors for checking oneself out. But his star customers are not interested in a convivial health club. They want the personal touch, and they get it. If Mickey Rourke requests an after-midnight workout, Isaacson opens the gym. If Danny Sullivan asks him to fly to Indianapolis, he gets...
...school must now survive without the firm hand of Balanchine, who died in 1983. Several important teachers are over 70 and will probably be replaced by retired City Ballet dancers, whose methods may be blander and more homogeneous. Last spring there was a public power scuffle on the school's board between the Old Guard and new benefactors. Dunning does little speculating about future problems. Wisely, she records the past and observes the present in clean prose and with the same eloquent good manners that mark a well-schooled dancer. --By Martha Duffy
...thing worked onstage as a puissant metaphor for shab-elegant show biz, where exhibitionism and humiliation dance in precise sync, where each passion must be displayed nakedly and clothed in artifice, where a dedicated pro's highest hope is to tap and smile invisibly behind the star. Each dancer's bio may have been trite: a child finding refuge and transcendence in dancing school (At the Ballet), a mouse whose charms are augmented by cosmetic surgery (Dance 10, Looks 3), a teenager whose parents find him dressed as a drag princess. But touched by the minimalist magic of Director Michael...
...Joan Blondell reports, "During the Depression I was making more than six pictures a year. I made six pictures while carrying my son and eight with my daughter. They'd get me behind desks and behind barrels and throw tables in front of me to hide my growing tummy." Dancer Eleanor Powell runs into a friend, a film cutter at MGM, and lunches with him at the studio commissary. That afternoon she is lectured by Louis B. Mayer: "My dear child, you are going to be a star . . . I would rather you weren't seen with any of the lower...
Since his early Harvard days, Lithgow has diversified his resume—adding father of three, children’s book author, and dancer for the New York City Ballet to a long list of starring roles in blockbusters and hit musicals...