Word: misha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burden in the fantasy world of flowers, floats, and happy faces that teemed among the happy throng at Red Square--billed as "The Largest Paved Enclosure East of the Balkans"? As troop carriers and missile launchers gaily paraded by, clowns threw buckets of confetti at the crowd, and Misha the bear stooped to say hello to youngsters. "I am Misha, the friendly symbol of the Soviet peoples," the bear would announce in Russian. "I welcome all strangers in peace. But if you come with aggressive intentions your blood will water the land of Mother Russia!" Young and old alike applauded...
...Misha has been invited to go back to Russia to perform, but he has declined the return engagement. He is reluctant to talk on the subject, so he declined the traditional Man of the Year press conference...
...least poor Misha didn't have...
When Mikhail Baryshnikov fled a touring Soviet dance troupe in Toronto in 1974, he left a homeland he loved and a professional life he could no longer bear. A performer of electrifying excitement, "Misha" saw nothing but stagnation in the rigid Soviet system. In the U.S., however, his dreams have come true: he danced the gamut of Western choreography, now heads a major company, the American Ballet Theatre, and is making his third film, Giselle. His second movie, White Nights, tells the tale of an emigre star whose plane crashes in the Soviet Union, forcing him to outwit...
...Whatever Misha wants Misha gets, and in everything from performing to generating projects, he makes it look so spectacularly easy. Mikhail Baryshnikov's latest undertaking is a movie called A Time to Dance, which is currently filming in Bari, Italy. The idea started when Baryshnikov went to Director Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) and proposed that they film the 19th century ballet Giselle together. Ross suggested expanding the concept to include a film-within-a-film plot about the world's greatest male dancer and the love affairs he has while filming a performance of Giselle. Baryshnikov did not find...