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
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Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.
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It was a basic story -- three or four or five girls start off together, one finds love, one goes crazy and/or dies, and one of them becomes a huge success -- but Rona's take was very up-to-date. What made it work for the time was that it had a fresh young-career-women-in-New York quality with a fillip of shock.
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Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.
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The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.
It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.
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The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.
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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.
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What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
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Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
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We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.
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Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.
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There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.
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Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
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Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.