Title Page
Copyright Notice
Preface
Near-Death Experiences
LIVES
A Trio of Go-Getter Trumps
“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”: Diana Cooper
Showing Off: John Wilkes Booth and His Brother Edwin
The Lyricist: Lorenz Hart
The Belter: Ethel Merman
LETTERS
The Wit: Dorothy Parker
The Genius: Thomas Wolfe
The Sensationalist: Wilkie Collins
A Russian Classic Revisited
Just for the Fun of It: Fifty Books of the Twentieth Century
In the Mood for Love: Romance Novels Today
The Book of Books: American Musicals
The Writer: Sebastian Barry
Anatomy of a Publisher: The Story of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
MUSIC
The Maestro: Arturo Toscanini
Lenny! Leonard Bernstein
At the Top of Pop: Clive Davis
Sizing Up Sinatra
DANCE
American Ballerina: Maria Tallchief
Russian Ballerina: Maya Plisetskaya
The Coach: Elena Tchernichova
Dancing in the Dark: Flesh and Bone
A Star on Pointe: Black Swan
MOVIES
Brilliant, Touching, Tough: Mary Astor
Liquid Asset: Esther Williams
Tame Jane: Jane Eyre in the Movies
Monstres Sacrés in Love: Stravinsky and Chanel
An Actress Like No Other: Setsuko Hara
OBSERVING DANCE
The Magic of Ashton
The Triumph of the Trocks
Twyla Tharp Takes Over Broadway
Robert Altman at the Ballet
The Disgrace of New York City Ballet
Farrell and Don Q
Cunningham’s Boundless Ocean
The Bolshoi Wows Its Fans
The French on a Vivaldi Spree
Peter Martins’s Efficient Swan Lake
A New Sleeping Beauty, a Great Aurora
Romeo + Juliet Stripped Clean
Can Martha Graham Be Kept Alive?
Bourne’s Male Swans Are Back at the Lake
A New Nutcracker Hits BAM
The Glory of the Young Paul Taylor
Thirty Years of Peter Martins
One Big Bug
Paul Taylor’s Diamond Jubilee
The Mariinsky—a Giant Question Mark
Alice in Love
The Red Army Assaults Lincoln Center
Michelle Dorrance: Tapping for Joy
City Ballet: Act III
Notes
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Also by Robert Gottlieb
About the Author
Copyright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
175 Varick Street, New York 10014
Copyright © 2018 by Robert Gottlieb
All rights reserved
First edition, 2018
Owing to limitations of space, illustration credits can be found here.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gottlieb, Robert, 1931– author.
Title: Near-death experiences … and others / Robert Gottlieb.
Description: First edition.|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017035982|ISBN 9780374219918 (hardcover)|ISBN 9780374717919 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Performing arts—United States—Reviews.|Entertainers—Miscellanea.
Classification: LCC PN2266.5 .G68 2018|DDC 791.097309/04—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017035982
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