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...like Esquire rather than an "editor's book" like New York magazine. That is, a staff-owned paper should enshrine the right of writers to "go off in directions the editors don't like." He cites the Village Voice, which doesn't have the Real Paper's staff share holder structure but whose pages are peppered with fiefdoms where writers like Jill Johnston and Jonas Mekas run amok without editorial interference. A staff owned paper that does not allow that freedom, Byron thinks, will inevitably be rife with infighting...
Piano and Paintbrush. After arriving in the U.S. in 1953 with his own folk-dance company, Holder spent two years as a principal dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. He has choreographed works for the Alvin Ailey company and the Dance Theater of Harlem. His paintings, mostly lush impressionist nudes, hang in the Corcoran Gallery, the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and the homes of, among others, William Buckley and Barbara Walters. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway (the 1957 revival of Waiting for Godot) and in films (Live and Let Die, Doctor Dolittle). He is the author...
...Holder, 44, attributes his multiplicity of interests to his father, a "salesman with brains" in Port-of-Spain who believed that "if you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." Among the tools his father provided were a piano and a paintbrush, both of which were first taken up by Holder's older brother Boscoe. "From the beginning, I was high on Chopin and turpentine," says Geoffrey. He has studied none of his arts formally. Creativity, he explains, is mostly a matter of environment and exigency: "At Carnival, for example...
...Holder was determined to convey "the full richness of black culture. Black lingo is beautiful." He adds: "I told the actors to speak it as if they were doing Shakespeare." He modeled the reunion of the Good Witches of the North and the South on a vision of "Josephine Baker and Lena Horne meeting in London after they hadn't seen each other in years...
Married for 20 years to Dancer Carmen de Lavallade, Holder relaxes by stirring up elaborate feasts for family friends. He finds cooking "so sexy, so sensual," in fact, that in addition to other upcoming projects, such as a film with Jeanne Moreau, Holder is planning to open a restaurant. On Sundays he will offer a special menu of Scotch and ice cream-"a fantasy for divorced fathers...