Word: nureyev
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...Nature is in the book." Actress Rosemary Harris says that she was overjoyed when she discovered that her co-star in the recent TV revival of Blithe Spirit would be Rachel Roberts, because the two were born under the same sign, and get along especially well together. Rudolf Nureyev wears a gold Pisces medallion around his neck. Peter Sellers has consulted a clairvoyant for the past six years, says, "It's a lot like going to a head shrinker...
...paper also threw a charity gala at the Paris Opera that glittered with the helmets of the Gardes Republicaines, and the dancing of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. It was all quite in character for a paper that once moved Charles de Gaulle to jest: "Each morning when its readers pick it up, they murmur: 'St. Figaro, reassure us.' " Pride in Speculation. Over the years, the paper has proved consistently reas suring to its affluent, conservative readership. Figaro prides itself on being no ordinary paper that merely dispenses the news. It has always had literary ambitions, and part...
...Before Nureyev defected to England, the Royal Ballet's lead was David Blair, and in one scene the two men dance together. The comparison is as illumiinating as it is cruel. Because he plays Mercutio, poor Blair has to keep smiling throughout. Not that Blair is bad. He dances with great control if a little stiffly. Then Nureyev comes along, with calves like artillery shells, and he is about as stiff as a bursting rocket. He doesn't have to leap to be amazing, he just has to move...
...Nureyev is always the star, he is not always the star-crossed lover. Fonteyn, on the other hand, concentrates on playing a part as well as on dancing. Keeping her arms to her side, she makes Juliet a little gawky and consequently very poignant. She has the face of a women of forty, but the moment she moves she becomes fourteen...
...camerawork is sometimes a bit fuzzy but nearly always unobtrusive. It captures the rich staginess of classical ballet, with all its shaky flats and thickly made-up faces. It even preserves Nureyev's finesse at milking curtain calls...