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...seems the famously taciturn GRETA GARBO could at times be quite communicative. This week the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia will unveil a collection of letters written by the Swedish sylph that have sat unread since 1960 and may portray a side of the actress never seen in her movies. The letters were given to the museum by their recipient--poet, playwright and socialite MERCEDES DE ACOSTA, who is perhaps best known for her purported affairs with Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan. The correspondence is believed to suggest that Garbo also ranked among her conquests. De Acosta stipulated that...
...summer of '74, tony-winning sylph Blythe Danner was playing Nina in The Seagull at the Williamstown Theatre in Massachusetts. One day, someone plopped Danner's daughter, who was not yet two, on the stage. "She didn't have anything on except her golden curls," Danner recalls in her famously delectable foggy-froggy voice. "She could barely talk, yet she knew the whole speech better than I did. She just started reciting"--and here Danner does a splendid imitation of a lisping infant declaiming Chekhov--"The men, the lions, the eagles, the part-widges.' That was the beginning. We should...
BABE. You thought the breed was extinct, that the only female body fashion was the sculpted, sanded sylph. Then along came Jennifer Connelly, innocent of face, voluptuous of form, aerodynamically perfect. In The Hot Spot, Career Opportunities and this summer's The Rocketeer, Connelly has been used as an iconic throwback, a memento of a simpler (sexist) era. Film critics quickly add that she is an appealing actress, just as men once declared that they read Playboy for the interviews. But so far Connelly has been mainly calendar art: Bettie Page via Vargas, a body without a soul. Moviemakers...
Seen during the Canadian part of the current tour, Scotch Symphony, Balanchine's musings on La Sylphide, worked best with Yelena Pankova, 25, as the sylph. A springy dancer blessed with a high, light jump, she seemed to grasp the choreographer's oft repeated injunction: respond to the music and "don't think -- do" the steps. Senior ballerina Galina Mezentseva tried to make a romantic story out of this plotless work and as a result looked...
...hill's base -- became an indelible part of postwar America's visual vocabulary and made the 31-year-old son of Illustrator N.C. Wyeth a star. As it happens, Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbor in Cushing, Me., was no girl (she was 55 at the time), no delicate sylph. She did not even pose for her most famous painting; the figure's torso is Betsy's. But the work was honest in its essentials, and it established Wyeth's world as a place of physical grandeur and psychic pain. No wonder Betsy compares her husband to Ingmar Bergman. The American...