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Article: Basting Robbins. (Books).(two books on Jerome Robbins)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins
by Greg Lawrence
Berkley, 622 pages, $17. (paper)
Broadway: The Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer-Directors 1940 to the Present
by Robert Emmet Long
Continuum, 312 pages, $35.
INTERVIEWING Bea Arthur earlier this year, I asked her about the great Broadway choreographer-director Jerome Robbins, with whom she had worked on Fiddler on the Roof in 1964. "He was really a nasty human being," she began, "I mean, everybody hated him!" After recounting an incident in which Robbins had reduced her to tears by upbraiding her in front of the cast, Arthur ...