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...There's something eternal in the basic narrative,' says John Neumeier, artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet ... 'A woman who's very pure and trusting and in the end very strong, and a man who's made a great mistake' ... It's a simple enough story: Giselle, a frail young peasant girl, [goes mad and] dies after she finds out that her lover Albrecht?who is from a much higher rung on the social ladder?has deceived her ... Prima ballerinas want to dance Giselle. It's a part that can make or break careers ... 'It's considered the same...
Johnny has a high school girlfriend, Carmen (Denise Richards), who becomes the hottest pilot in the star fleet. This gives director Paul Verhoeven, always a coldly calculating craftsman, and writer Ed Neumeier, adapting a Robert A. Heinlein novel, a chance to satirize old-fashioned aerial-combat movies too. Johnny also has a frustrated high school admirer, Dizzy (Dina Meyer), who lands in his platoon, finally gets his attention and then heroically dies. This gives the filmmakers a chance to strike that note of romantic self-sacrifice--death transfigured--that is integral to movies of this kind...
...think that, per se, there is a problemwith a lawyer leaving a job as house counsel andgoing to work for an outside firm." said RichardL. Neumeier, chair of the ethics committee of theBoston Bar Association...
Matthew M. Neumeier Harvard Law Review...
...innocent, ethereal waif - bruised and bewildered. In a pas de deux with Baryshnikov, their bodies seemed perfectly attuned, suggesting that incandescent union of talents and temperaments they have displayed as partners in better works. Bruhn's Claudius was a cold, imperious, lecherous king. It is to Neumeier's credit that his choreography asks Bruhn to do more demanding dancing than anything he has attempted since coming out of retirement last year. As for Haydee - perhaps ballet's reigning actress-dancer - her Gertrude was a startlingly erotic embodiment of lust. Seeing her wrapped sensuously about Baryshnikov...