Word: mime
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story on the making of the 1976 version of King Kong, Janos talked with Producer Dino de Laurentiis, Director John Guillermin and many members of the film's cast and crew of thousands. They were no difficulty. The hard job, literally, was making contact with Gorilla Mime Rick Baker, who stood in for the 40-ft. "audioanimatronic" Kong in scenes that were shot in miniature...
...celebrate Pooh's 50th birthday last week was Christopher Robin Milne, 56, the author's son, whose 1974 autobiography, The Enchanted Places, described the trials of growing up in the shadow of a Teddy bear. "Pooh is a toy I had as a child," says Mime, now a bookstore owner in Devon, England. "The exploitation of the books makes me sick. I do hope there will be no more of these anniversaries." Anyway, as Pooh's gloomy pal Eeyore philosophized in The House at Pooh Corner: "What are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow...
...addition to the Limon company, the Brandeis Expressions Series hosts Margalit Dance Theater November 12-14 and the Claude Kipnis Mime Theater November 19-21. A local train pulls out of a dungeon under Porter Square around 6:30 giving you more time than you want to see the Brandeis campus before the show. After the performance there's no train back after past 11, so take a warm blanket if it's cold...
...Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and scheduled to play in New York and London, is opulently and ebulliently staged; it makes a refreshingly short, diverting summer evening at the theater. But it is not really a ballet. The dancers move through production numbers stitched together by recitatives of mime. They smile brilliantly, toss back their heads and wave champagne glasses. Often there is not much else for them to do. A question recurs with nagging frequency: Why aren't these people singing...
...court scenes are a frenzied brew of comic motion, alternating between medieval Italian dance, bouts of wrestling and the Comedian Dell'Arte's pantomime. Among all the dancers the devil's mute partner, Salme (Charlotte Spanos), stands out. Her sinuous form oozes gratuitous corruption. Pulcinello's (Kevin Grumbach) mime effortlessly steals the show for awhile. Even the courtesans playing cat's cradle and pat-a-cake provide an instant's interest for your roving...