Artistic Inspiration American Masters -- Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun illuminates the exceptional qualities of "Tanny" in life and in dance. It portrays her artistic triumph and her personal tragedy. Through her own words and through the people who knew and loved her, ...
Tanaquil Le Clercq was one of George Balanchine's muses and her body and style became an ideal in ballet. This excerpt from "American Masters -- Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun" shows her dancing in Balanchine's "Concerto Barocco" and includes commentary from Balanchine's assistant ...
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Born in Paris, Tanaquil Le Clercq (1929 - 2000) was the daughter of a French intellectual and a society matron from St. Louis, MO. When Tanny was three, they moved to New York where her father Jacques Le Clercq taught romance languages. "Tanny" as she ...
In this film excerpt, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalls his father's admiration for Plimpton. "My father admired George for his courage, he had a curiosity about life and I think that’s the thing that probably attracted my father the most to him," says Kennedy, Jr. "Like ...
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American Masters is proud to feature George Plimpton in its second series of vintage trading cards (see Billie Jean King for the first). Writer and journalist George Plimpton (1927-2003) lived many adventures, pushing the boundaries of his life, which could have likely hovered at a ...
George Plimpton was famous for shaping one of the country's most prestigious literary magazines, all while keeping it fun. He encouraged his young staff and created an informal community with plenty of apartment parties and sports activities. Robert Silvers of The New York Review of ...
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Writer and journalist George Plimpton (1927–2003) did not show much early promise when he flunked out of the college preparatory school Exeter (Phillips Exeter Academy), where his family held an esteemed reputation. In a film excerpt, Plimpton's son reads his father's essay: "How Failing at ...
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Join American Masters and The Paris Review for an extended, pre-broadcast online preview of Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself, exploring the participatory journalist’s tall-tale life through previously unseen material and new interviews with family, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Hugh Hefner, Gay Talese, Graydon Carter, The ...
"The Paris Review is maybe a spiritual hideout for George," reflects Terry McDonnell of Sports Illustrated. I think it was a place where he could do the highest level of his work in the way he would define it." Watch Excerpt from Plimpton! Starring George ...
This timeline of key moments in environmental history and the environmental movement is adapted from Tom Turner's chronology for American Earth, an anthology edited by Bill McKibben. The timeline includes important early writing, the first conservation groups, disasters, legislation, community and non-profit activism, and more. Early ...
