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...into the blurred area between reality and fantasy. In 1844, a French writer, Alexandre Dumas pere softened and sweetened Hoffman's tale into the story of a young girl's Christmas fantasy that would inspire Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to stage it for the Maryinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892. Act One opens in the Silberhaus home where the family eagerly awaits party guests, and Clara and Fritz eagerly await the accompanying presents. Their mysterious and magical godfather, Dr. Drosselmeyer (Laszlo Berdo) enters once all the guests have arrived with a number of surprises that delight...
Washington -- Although 48% of the respondents to a recent poll in St. Petersburg said they would like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to be President of Russia (only 18% picked Boris Yeltsin), the writer's wife Natalya has told TIME that he has no plans to enter politics. Despite the turmoil in Russia last month, the couple still plans to return in May after 17 years of exile in Vermont. "The decision has been made," Natalya says...
...sleep one hundred years until kissed by a handsome prince. The strength of the ballet lies in the noble and soaring melodies of the music, composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. With choreography by Marius Petipa, The Sleeping Beauty received its first performance at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in January of 1890, attaining instant success. Staged by Anna-Marie Holmes, the Boston Ballet's choreography tries to maintain the flavor and quality of Petipa's original movement by staying as close as possible to his original choreography, rendering the ballet an embodiment of the grand Russian style softened...
...takes or what it costs me -- I'm going to make this film.' You must be utterly in love with filmmaking to get beyond all the crazy obstacles." She raised the $4 million budget from Russian, French, Italian, Dutch and British sources, then shot the film in Saint Petersburg, Uzbekistan and a mansion built in 1611 for the Earl of Salisbury...
...around $100 million each to join the most exclusive club in America. With the new Colorado Rockies likely to draw 4 million fans and the Florida Marlins marketing themselves to the nation's fourth largest state, why not put two more major-league cities (maybe Phoenix and St. Petersburg) on the map by 1996? There's only one problem with this beautiful scenario: virtually no team in baseball except Atlanta can point to five solid starting pitchers. Just ask Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, who went without a victory in 16 straight spring-training games because his pitching staff resembles...