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...House was mostly unsatisfactory, and a good part of the problem lies with Nureyev. The trouble began with his recension of Swan Lake, which was silly and eccentric and, worst of all, skewed to provide a fat role for the aging, painfully stiff company director. This version of the legend is not about the tragic love of the prince and the spellbound queen but about the prince's rebellion against his tutor, who doubles as the sorcerer Rothbart. The famous "black swan" pas de deux in the third act is now a murky pas de trois...
...differentiated by a tiny W and E, which run north and south. Lulled by interstate monotony, the unwary sometimes fail to notice the split, and circle the city on the 35s and their various permutations until they give up and opt for Waco. That furnishes the underpinning for the legend of the ghost of I-35. It is said in Western truck stops that once a young couple with a small child (some versions claim twin children) circled Dallas in July until their auto air conditioner failed and they died, and that on still nights when the moon is full...
Many a Western legend was born over whisky and roulette at the Crystal Palace Saloon in Tombstone, Ariz. Wyatt Earp, who took part in the famed shootout at the O.K. Corral (just two blocks away), gambled there. Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson came for serious drinking, while upstairs Pioneer Surgeon George Goodfellow removed bullets from slow-moving cowboys. Despite harrowing moments and hard times, the saloon is still in business and is now up for sale. The asking price...
Another Kovacs anomaly: though his legend has grown since his death in a car accident in 1962, at age 42, his programs--mostly in quaint black and white--have remained largely unseen. Unlike the TV work of most of his comedy contemporaries (who are still active or whose shows can be seen in reruns), . the bulk of Kovacs' tapes have either been lost or relegated to dusty shelves. To remedy that, the Museum of Broadcasting in New York City has mounted a summerlong retrospective of Kovacs' oeuvre that demonstrates once again the importance of seeing Ernie...
...intrepid scholar. Of St. Evaristus (c.100-c.109), for example, he says, "Nothing is in fact reliably known about him." St. Felix I (269-74) "is one of the obscurest Popes, even his dates being conjectural." Then there was Pope Joan, whose entire existence is conjectural. Kelly dutifully traces the oftretold legend of a disguised woman Pope (who was found out when she gave birth while trying to mount a horse) to a 13th century work called the Universal Chronicle of Metz. The only Pope who never existed even in legend was John XX, whose nonexistence apparently occurred because John...