Hello, I'm Rachel.
Lady biographer. New Mexican tumbleweed blown east to skyscraper country.
Currently: I am working on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, and Hollywood in the 1930s. It will also contain a lot of drinking, powder blue suits, dances at the Cocoanut Grove, gossip columns, crazy ladies, secret Jews, film lot moguls, and Dorothy Parker quips at funerals. If the world is still around then, it should be out from Random House around 2014. So let's hope the Mayans were wrong.
If you want to say hi please do. Or find me in short form, here.
6:16 PM
16th December 2007
Le Corsaire (The Pirate) was announced as the opening ballet for ABT’s 2008 season. Kind of a weird choice, since it involves swashbucking on pointe and some very suspect Aladdin-style baggy dancing trousers. But it does have one of the best pas de deux out there, danced beautifully here by Ethan Stiefel and Julie Kent (who were both in Center Stage…slightly discomfited that I know that). I think I want to go in May.
