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HOUSTON — Politics, more
than custom, dictate that the first
Chinese dance students to study in
the United States will spend their
lives and talent in China in a ballet
considered drab by American stand
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Li Cunxin and Zhang Weiqiang,
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“When they came, I tried to get
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one must be careful about the
Taiwanese situation — I tried to get
Chinese people and they said, ‘no,
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son, artistic director of the Houston
Ballet.
“And I had some Chinese people
who were going to be interpretors
for them and they said, ‘no, we want
to try to speak Engish.’ And, there’s
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and Zhang) said no. And they said,
‘you would not like to come to China
and go out with Americans. ”’
Stevenson discovered the boys at
the Peking Institute of Dance in
March while traveling with the first
U.S. cultural delegation to visit
China.
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“I was teaching in Peking,” he
said. “I liked those two boys very
much. I said it would be marvelous
if I could get some sort of schol
arship for them to come here and
the feeling was from the people in
volved that it was a very nice ges
ture but it would take perhaps two
years to organize something like
that.”
The six-week trip and schol
arships were arranged in less than
three months, however, with the
help of Columbia University’s Cen
ter for U.S.China Arts Exchange
and for reasons Stevenson can only
speculate upon.
“I’m going back to Peking for a
month to teach, I think that helped
a lot, the fact that I sort of think they
need me,” he said shortly before the
boys’ stay ended. At the time, he
was waiting in his Ballet Academy
office for the boys’ return from
English classes.
“It’s very unusual for young
people to come out (of China) like
that. They’re the youngest students
out for anything and the first per
forming arts students. I don’t think
any of us really thought it would
happen, that they’d come over
here.”
Stevenson choreographed a pas
de deux (dance for two) for Li and
Zhang, although their only perform
ance was before 120 persons active
in the local ballet workshop. No
public performances were planned
before their departure (Aug. 5) by
way of New York where they hoped
to meet Mikhail Baryshnikov during
a three-day stopover.
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NEW YORK — The first new show of the season to be cancelled-
before it ever appeared on the air — was aptly titled “Nobody
Perfect.”
It also was one of the most promising, to judge by the
That’s apparently what fooled ABC — the network judged byt:
pilot when it scheduled the half-hour sitcom starring British act::
Ron Moody as an elegant Scotland Yard inspector on loan to theSas
Francisco Police Department.
Moody’s Roger Hart reads Sherlock Holmes, but at work he re
sembles Peter Seller’s Inspector Clouseau, breaking as he enters
The pilot has a delightfully zany quality, and a leading characte
who the audience can laugh with as well as at — a man who can
bumble with the best of them but who wasn’t obviously AWOLwk
the brains were passed around.
ABC discovered, however, that succeeding installments of the sit
com did not live up to the opening episode’s promise.
It happens all the time — television land has a whole
writers who specialize in pilots, because those are the scripts os
which series are sold. Once a show is bought, the quality often goes
down.
In this instance, rather than accept a weak half-hour, ABC shelved
the show’s premiere while production work continues. “Nobody
Perfect” probably will be an early winter replacement.
That left a hole in the ABC schedule, which will be filled by tie
“Detective School” run by James Gregory, aka Inspector huger
“Barney Miller.” Originally scheduled as a limited-run summer
placement, “Detective School” has scored top marks in the ultriu'f
test — the Nielsen rating's.
A pilot that failed to turn into a series will be shown on CBS At;
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“The 416th” center around four hapless young Army reservists callec
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unit with no training or purpose.
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plagued by a stupidly sadistic Southern lieutenant but protected by i
paternal black colonel.
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question remains: why is the network subjecting its audience to tbe
pilot?
The United States only has one president, but ABC, CBS and NBC
among them have dozens in charge of various corporate entities The
latest to make president rank is NBC’s Irwin Segelstein, promoted
from executive vice president, broadcasting, to president, NBC tele
visions stations-radio. As far as can be determined, his areas of re
sponsibility remain the same. The announcement was made by Pres
ident Fred Silverman, NBC’s boss of all bosses.
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