Word: impresarios
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Early this century, the Ballets Russes toured Europe and performed dances that helped lay the foundation for modern ballet; a young George Ballanchine honed his craft with this troupe. Under the direction of Russian impresario Diaghilev, the Ballets Russes featured the avant-garde: music by Stravinsky and Debussy, sets by Picasso and Matisse, choreography by Fokine and Nijinsky. The film opens in 1912, with Nijinsky (George de la Pena) at the height of his distinguished dancing career, and beginning to design his own ballets, encouraged by mentor and lover Diaghilev (Alan Bates). But as Nijinsky's innovative ballets meet with...
...consuming ambition to be a choreographer. The latter came from his involvement with Romola de Pulszky, portrayed as a rather silly society girl who joins Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with the express purpose of seducing the dancer. After a number of rather tedious misunderstandings with the impresario (who is also his lover), Nijinsky indeed falls into her waiting arms; at that point his decline from a kind of noble and innocent moodiness to lunacy begins...
...gripping, real-life drama from the inside story of how a revolution in TV news led to a multimillion-dollar bidding war for an anchorman. The individual most responsible for the revolution is, ironically, not basically a journalist at all. He is a 48-year-old television sports impresario known for his polka-dotted shirts and khaki safari jackets, flaming red hair and all but total inability to return phone calls. His name: Roone Arledge...
...year 1980 the press has become much more than that. Since no one else seems in charge-state and national chairmen of the two parties count for very little-the nation's news organizations have assumed the role of matchmaker for the campaign, much like an oldtime boxing impresario...
...recent works seem to be the chores of an author, necessary productions for the furtherance of a literary personage. Donleavy may not actually have dictated his new book while riding in the back of a rented Rolls, but the impression given by Schultz, a farce about an American theatrical impresario attempting to stay afloat in London, is of a novelist who believes that neither his subject nor his reader deserves close attention...