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Article: BIOGRAPHER DOES A CREDIBLE JOB REPORTING ON AGNES DE MILLE'S LIFE.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 12, 1996
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Carol Easton has a difficult job in ``No Intermissions,'' her biography of Agnes de Mille. De Mille, the choreographer of ``Oklahoma!'' and other Broadway hits as well as ballets, had become a beloved icon by the time of her death in 1993, a few weeks after her 88th birthday, a colorful and indomitable fighter against the Jobian perils that had descended on her in old age.
She is widely credited with reshaping the Broadway musical with her generous-hearted dances for the 1943 ``Oklahoma!'' She brought a new kind of psychological drama to ballet with ``Rodeo'' and ``Fall River Legend,'' celebrating American characters and American dance forms at the same time. But ...