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After a 23-hour flight from Sydney, the Australian dancers LISA PAVANE, 33, and GREG HORSMAN, 31, were ready for sleep in their London flat. Then the phone rang. Midway through the English National Ballet's Swan Lake, the prima ballerina was injured. Pavane and Horsman--they're married and not the star- crossed lovers they dance in Romeo and Juliet, above--were summoned. The two E.N.B. principals rushed by taxi to Royal Festival Hall as the audience waited. They leaped into Act III. ``It was,'' says Pavane, who whipped through the Black Swan's famously difficult 32 fouettes...
...Sulpice scene from Manon, a passionate encounter between lovers in a monastery, brings on the prima donna ``Vera Galupe-Borszkh,'' a.k.a. ``La Dementia.'' Wearing a colossal red fright wig and more lipstick than Lucille Ball, she commands the stage like Bette Midler on Benzedrine, casting her stratospheric soprano to the bleachers as it veers between ear-splitting fortissimos and never-ending pianissimos...
...Sepulce scene from Manon, a passionate encounter between lovers in a monastery, brings on the prima donna "Vera Galupe-Borszkh," a.k.a. "La Dementia." Wearing a colossal red fright wig and more lipstick than Lucille Ball, she commands the stage like Bette Midler on Benzedrine, casting her stratospheric soprano to the bleachers as it veers between ear-splitting fortissimos and never-ending pianissimos...
...want some oversensitive prima donna refusing autograph requests...
...informed the assembled crowd of Oprah-worshippers, not even his own father--surprise, surprise--lent any credence to that), but offered as hard evidence a tape. Not of the aliens mind you; but of his own screams during a hypnosis session when he "relived" the abduction. How much more prima facie...