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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What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.
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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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Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.
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In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.
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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.
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Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
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I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.
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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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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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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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With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.
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We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.