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...facts of Celine's life can be read more or less surrealistically in Journey and in his second masterpiece Mort a Credit (translated as Death on the Installment Plan), which is, among other things, a merciless recollection of boyhood and family life. "I was born in a shop," he liked to say, referring to his mother's modest lacemaking establishment; for all his rebellion, an incorrigible petit bourgeois, pinching every franc, lived within Celine. At 14 he dropped out of school and worked at a silk shop and as an errand boy. In the evenings, eyes "burning with...
This clout helps Baryshnikov realize his other thwarted aim from Kirov days-to dance roles drawn from outside the classical repertory. Les Patineurs is one of these, as is Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, which he flew to Paris to learn from Choreographer Petit. In the summer he will add Shadowplay, which Antony Tudor is reworking especially for him. Such innovators as Twyla Tharp and Alvin Ailey are also working on new ballets for him. John Neumeier, director of the Hamburg Opera Ballet, will stage Hamlet for him-probably next winter...
...cast, in its entirety, consists of Joe Masiell, who sounds, as convention demands, as if he were chanting from the bottom of a rain barrel; Mort Schuman, who comes on tousled and puppyish and is presumably available for comic relief; and Elly Stone. Miss Stone is what Variety might call a diminutive thrush. She is at pains to assure us, however, that she is mighty of spirit. In every song she gives it all she's got. In her case, this amounts to two wide eyes, a loud voice and a battery of emotional gestures that range from wringing...
Screenplay by MELVILLE SHAVELSON and MORT LACHMAN...
...closes Saturday night. But somehow every Saturday night Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows managed to kid every facet of '50s life, from commuters to foreign films. Satire thrived in Washington, where Cartoonist Herblock made savage, premonitory caricatures of Vice President Nixon in search of prominence. Mort Sahl earned $100,000 a year kidding the splayfoot, clayfoot maneuvers of the middle class, in and out of ofiice. Jules Feiffer, Walt Kelly, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Mad magazine all flourished in the allegedly timid decade. Jack Kerouac's road, Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Gregory...