Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herbert Ross has come up with the best solution yet to this dilemma in his film The Turning Point. He avoids this undesirable trade-off by casting a competent actress who cannot pirouette her way out of a paper bag (Anne Bancroft) in one of the two lead roles--a middle-aged ballerina clearly in decline--and supporting her with two genuine ballet stars (Mikhail Baryshnikov and Leslie Browne) in significant if minor roles. Realism and a respect for the irreplaceable skills of a tested movie star blend nicely in Ross' polished parable about the world of ballet...
...ROSS'S DIRECTION doesn't really shine until the final 15 minutes of The Turning Point. Deedee's long pent-up sense of frustration and envy over Emma's ultimate professional success comes spilling out during the final showdown between the two long-time friends, which follows the company's special gala performance establishing Emilia as a full-fledged rising star in the company. The accumulated venom flies fast and free during this encounter of the caustic kind, building up to a classic display of feminine fisticuffs. The scene is handled perfectly by Ross, as the two friends suddenly dissolve...
DIED. Nellie Tayloe Ross, 101, the first of five women to serve as Governor of an American state; in Washington, D.C. A quietly feminist Democrat who was elected to a two-year term in the Wyoming statehouse in 1924 after the death of her husband, William Bradford Ross, she later became director of the Mint...
...creation of Citicorp Center might have been scripted by Ross Macdonald in collaboration with Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author). It all began one Saturday afternoon in September 1968. Two ambitious real estate brokers, Donald Schnabel, then 36, and Charles McArthur, then 45, had heard that Saint Peter's might be for sale. As Schnabel and McArthur cased the other buildings in the block, they became possessed of what is almost an impossible dream in modern Manhattan: "assembling" all the parcels so that one mighty building could rise on the site...
...Ross first met Chavez in San Jose in 1952, he said. The two worked together in the Community Service Organization until Chavez left in 1962 to devote all his time to organizing Chicano farm workers...