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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Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
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Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
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Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.
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In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.
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In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand.
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In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.
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In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.
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Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
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The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.
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If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
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City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
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City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.
Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.
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I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.