I can't wait to read Julie Kavanagh's new book, "Nureyev: The Life." The review by Toni Bentley in the Sunday Book Review makes it sound great, with delicious passages like this one: He refused to finish the ballet wearing the short trousers he likened to "lampshades." He had seen photographs of Western dancers and, like them, wanted to wear just tights. And Nureyev in tights was a sight to see -- no wonder they wanted him to keep the lampshades on!
Kavanagh points out that one thing all but missing from it, though, is his famous 1978 appearance on "The Muppet Show." (The only one I might have enjoyed more was Debbie Harry's, although for completely different reasons.) Nureyev's pas de deux with a giant pig in “Swine Lake” is only the enticing warm-up for the piece de resistance: his scene in the steam bath -- his home away from -- in a towel, with an understandably amorous Miss Piggy, below. ("Well, hello! Don't you talk to strangers?" she asks.) I was far too young to visit the baths in the 1970s, but Nureyev was said to be "always sexually agitated, and bathhouses, clubbing and anonymous pickups were a regular part of his life." Sadly, this will be as close as I ever get to an "anonymous" encounter with the beauty of Bashkiria.
I can't wait to read Julie Kavanagh's new book, "Nureyev: The Life." The review by Toni Bentley in the Sunday Book Review makes it sound great, with delicious passages like this one: He refused to finish the ballet wearing the short trousers he likened to "lampshades." He had seen photographs of Western dancers and, like them, wanted to wear just tights. And Nureyev in tights was a sight to see -- no wonder they wanted him to keep the lampshades on!
Kavanagh points out that one thing all but missing from it, though, is his famous 1978 appearance on "The Muppet Show." (The only one I might have enjoyed more was Debbie Harry's, although for completely different reasons.) Nureyev's pas de deux with a giant pig in “Swine Lake” is only the enticing warm-up for the piece de resistance: his scene in the steam bath -- his home away from -- in a towel, with an understandably amorous Miss Piggy, below. ("Well, hello! Don't you talk to strangers?" she asks.) I was far too young to visit the baths in the 1970s, but Nureyev was said to be "always sexually agitated, and bathhouses, clubbing and anonymous pickups were a regular part of his life." Sadly, this will be as close as I ever get to an "anonymous" encounter with the beauty of Bashkiria.
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THIS WAS A TREAT!
Nureyev was in a movie and there was a nude scene (frontal). He was kneeling down (in a tent if I recall correctly) and his penis was fully exposed.
The movie was Valentino with Ken Russell as the director. There are DVDs of it but not in a format compatible with US and Canada machines.
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