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The 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...
The forms they would make their own had for decades been honorable Hollywood genres: the exotic epic, the adaptation of famous novels, the decorous comedy of manners. But with spiraling costs, the epic soon went microscopic. Big-budget films today are less likely to be adapted from classic novels than...
Is the party over? Ivory without Merchant is like Conan without Doyle, or Lloyd without Webber. But I hope Ivory now 76, and Prawer Jhabvala, 78, continue. Just as Merchant-Ivory ignored the death notices for the movie traditions of craftsmanship and delicacy, and revived them for more than 40...
"It's said that the French have the efficiency of the Italians and the manners of the Germans. Cannes really should take lessons in festival efficiency and courtesy from the only people who know how to do it: the ones in Toronto.
(6 of 6) Good teachers know their curriculum, maintain order and enjoy the company of children. "But at the end of the day," says P. & C. boss Brownlee, "those children belong to a family." Just as nurses in pediatric wards must be constantly reassuring the relatives of the sick, she...