Review: West Side Story at the Caracalla Baths in Rome – thoroughly enjoyable, but where was Robbins?
Donatella Bertozzi sees West Side Story in Rome with its strong and pervasive rhythmical sense of staging.
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Royal Ballet Principal Francesca Hayward to appear in film adaptation of Cats
Francesca Hayward, Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, has joined the cast of the film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, which will be directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables, The Danish Girl). The film has an exceptionally starry cast with Judi Dench as Old Deuteronomy (played by a…
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Elizabeth Taylor’s designer clothes to be auctioned
Designer clothes owned by Hollywood legend and fashion icon Elizabeth Taylor, including haute couture by Chanel, Yves St. Laurent and Dior, will be sold at auction in New York, Christie’s said today. The silk chiffon dress that the Academy Award winning actress wore for her first wedding to actor Richard Burton will be among the…
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Close Encounters sound-man Frank Warner dies at 85
Sound designer and sound effects editor Frank Edward Warner, who won an Oscar for his sound editing work on “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” died of natural causes in Arizona, on August 31. He was 85. Warner said that “sound is like music that gives us the emotion that the writer intended.” In 1966,…
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Roberto Bolle on why Natalie Portman should give back her Oscar… and more
Questions and answers with Roberto Bolle including whether he thinks Natalie Portman deserves her Oscar for the film Black Swan, and the most beautiful woman and man in the world.
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Sarah Lane’s back, this time on ABC, talking about being Natalie Portman’s ‘Black Swan’ Dance Double
In her first television interview on ABC’s “20/20’s” with Elizabeth Vargas, Sarah Lane, the ballerina who was Natalie Portman‘s dance double in “Black Swan,” accused film-makers of lying about how much she danced in the film, and trying to cover it up. I’m not speaking because I feel I should be heralded, I’m just speaking because they’re completely lying…
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‘Black Swan’ controversy: ‘Natalie herself did most of the dancing,’ insist filmmakers. Her double disagrees.
A claim by Natalie Portman‘s ballet double from the movie Black Swan alleging that the Oscar-winning actress did not perform the majority of that film’s dance sequences has quickly been challenged. Sarah Lane, the American Ballet Theatre soloist who doubled for Portman during some of that film’s most difficult dance sequences, told Entertainment Weekly that…
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