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Article: NO RUN-OF-DE MILLE TALENT.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1996
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Byline: Jennifer Dunning The New York Times
Title: "No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille"
Author: Carol Easton
Data: 548 pages, Little, Brown & Co.; $29.95
Our rating: Three Stars
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 ...