Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
except resonance
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
filled front uses
'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial.
work
Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.
across major position publishers spectrum
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.
great memoir nonfiction served
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
clearly drill master snaps steps thrilling
Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage.
shakespeare
Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.
fair justice shot
Now we have a fair shot at justice being done.
Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.
people
Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.
emotional flowing glorious men mould series women
'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'
army cambridge came early genius improve officers plays putting russian school students
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.
program
When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.