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PaulaJoW wrote: Wasn't Nureyev gay? That's the impression I always had, but I could be wrong.
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Well, I'm certainly in the wrong industry for meeting men as well - interior design!
Was that biographer male? Guys tend to stick together when they're exposing their sexual exploits. I wasn't so much a fan of Nureyev as I was Mikhail Baryshnikov. I never thought Baryshnikov was gay but, then again, I could be wrong about that too! He certainly wasn't on Sex & The City.
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Helen M wrote: "The extent of their physical consummation remains unclear - Nureyev said that they had a physical relationship while Fonteyn denied it; her biographer agrees with Nureyev's version."
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IRISH actress Anne-Marie Duff knows just how to keep the passion alive in her romance with actor David Tennant. She says it's their frequent separations that keep the relationship fresh and exciting. "I'm in love, I'm walking around with a sunshine burst around my head," says 25-year-old Anne-Marie, who shot to fame in TV classics The Aristocrats and Amongst Women. Anne-Marie is currently winning critical acclaim starring with Helen Mirren in the play Collected Stories in London's West End. She spent last summer on the Isle of Wight with Lynda Bellingham and Saira Todd filming a new ITV series, Reach For The Moon, and now she is off to Stratford for six months to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. Anne-Marie, 25, believes it's fatal for couples to be too dependent on each other. "Our separations keep things fresh," she says. "We have our own space, and stories to tell each other when we're back together. "We both work a lot, so one of us is never in a terrible state of insecurity about work. There are no power struggles in that way." Anne-Marie and David met while playing husband and wife in the West End play Vassar. They became close during rehearsals and the romance took off from there. "It's a lovely relationship and we're really good friends," she says. "David's very organised and helps sort out my mess which is brilliant because I'm always in a complete state. I'm terrible at time management and sorting out my life. "My flat is very messy whereas his is neat and pristine. "I think I'm quite good at loosening him up, so that balances things." Asked about marriage, she says: "That's not even a question, not an issue. But I'm in love. I'm more in love all the time as we find out more and more about each other. "David saw the play I'm doing with Helen Mirren three times before we'd even opened. He was very supportive during rehearsals because I was saying over and over again, 'I don't know if I can do this'. He was great, he kept me going." ...
IRISH actress Anne-Marie Duff knows just how to keep the passion alive in her romance with actor David Tennant.
She says it's their frequent separations that keep the relationship fresh and exciting.
"I'm in love, I'm walking around with a sunshine burst around my head," says 25-year-old Anne-Marie, who shot to fame in TV classics The Aristocrats and Amongst Women.
Anne-Marie is currently winning critical acclaim starring with Helen Mirren in the play Collected Stories in London's West End.
She spent last summer on the Isle of Wight with Lynda Bellingham and Saira Todd filming a new ITV series, Reach For The Moon, and now she is off to Stratford for six months to join the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Anne-Marie, 25, believes it's fatal for couples to be too dependent on each other.
"Our separations keep things fresh," she says. "We have our own space, and stories to tell each other when we're back together.
"We both work a lot, so one of us is never in a terrible state of insecurity about work. There are no power struggles in that way."
Anne-Marie and David met while playing husband and wife in the West End play Vassar. They became close during rehearsals and the romance took off from there.
"It's a lovely relationship and we're really good friends," she says. "David's very organised and helps sort out my mess which is brilliant because I'm always in a complete state. I'm terrible at time management and sorting out my life.
"My flat is very messy whereas his is neat and pristine.
"I think I'm quite good at loosening him up, so that balances things."
Asked about marriage, she says: "That's not even a question, not an issue. But I'm in love. I'm more in love all the time as we find out more and more about each other.
"David saw the play I'm doing with Helen Mirren three times before we'd even opened. He was very supportive during rehearsals because I was saying over and over again, 'I don't know if I can do this'. He was great, he kept me going."
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The Bridge Project's second season: Sam Mendes casts Anne-Marie Duff as Ariel and Rosalind Anne-Marie Duff, who bridged social divides in a range of performances from playing an out-of-work scrounger in Shameless to Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen, is soon to cross another cultural bridge - one that will take her to America, around the world and back again. Sam Mendes has cast her in two Shakespearean productions that will begin in New York early in the New Year. The actress will join the Tony award-winning actor Stephen Dillane and New York-based thespians Christian Camargo and Juliet Rylance for the second season of what's known as the Bridge Project, classical plays cast with actors from both sides of the Atlantic that play on both sides of that ocean. Anne-Marie will play Ariel in The Tempest opposite Dillane's Prospero, Camargo's Stephano and Rylance's Miranda. In As You Like It she will play Rosalind, Dillane Jaques, Camargo Orlando with Rylance as Celia. 'I'm really looking forward to it,' Anne-Marie told me. 'I just met up with Sam, had a cup of tea and, as you can imagine, it didn't take much to be enticed. He's ridiculously charming. It was a bit of a no-brainer really. I thought I'd be an idiot to say no.' The second Bridge season begins with As You Like It opening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January next year, followed by The Tempest in February. The Bard's plays will then tour before hitting the Old Vic next summer. But until rehearsals begin in October, Anne-Marie told me, she'll be taking a break. 'And I'll be eating some cake,' she said laughing. She's had to be disciplined on the cake front up to now, you see, as she's just finished portraying Britain's first prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn, in a BBC4 film called Margot. 'I was in a leotard and I felt I should at least look as if I was a disciplined dancer.' For that, she worked with classical choreographers the Ballet Boyz for several weeks before director Otto Bathurst began letting the cameras roll. Before that project she was in another biographical movie, this time playing John Lennon's mother Julia in Nowhere Boy, an Ecosse film that stars Aaron Johnson and Kristin Scott Thomas and was directed by Sam Taylor-Wood. Nowhere Boy has the closing night slot at the BFI Times London Film Festival in October. Caro Newling, who runs Neal Street Productions with Mendes, reminded me that they had originally intended to work with Dillane back in 2007, but for personal reasons the actor had to withdraw. 'We were going to do The Tempest then, so it's really exciting we were able to resume a conversation we'd already begun,' Ms Newling explained. Hamlet was also talked about then, but two years on there have been a lot of mad Danish royals on our stages. By the way, the American actor Christian Camargo can also be seen this month in the move The Hurt Locker, about a bomb disposal unit set in Iraq, and it's one of the best pictures I have seen this year. The first Bridge Project season - with a company that includes Simon Russell Beale, Ethan Hawke, Sinead Cusack and Rebecca Hall - continues at the Old Vic with The Cherry Orchard and The Winter's Tale, running until August 15 before a final date at Epidaurus, the amphitheatre in Greece.
Anne-Marie Duff, who bridged social divides in a range of performances from playing an out-of-work scrounger in Shameless to Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen, is soon to cross another cultural bridge - one that will take her to America, around the world and back again.
Sam Mendes has cast her in two Shakespearean productions that will begin in New York early in the New Year.
The actress will join the Tony award-winning actor Stephen Dillane and New York-based thespians Christian Camargo and Juliet Rylance for the second season of what's known as the Bridge Project, classical plays cast with actors from both sides of the Atlantic that play on both sides of that ocean.
Anne-Marie will play Ariel in The Tempest opposite Dillane's Prospero, Camargo's Stephano and Rylance's Miranda. In As You Like It she will play Rosalind, Dillane Jaques, Camargo Orlando with Rylance as Celia.
'I'm really looking forward to it,' Anne-Marie told me. 'I just met up with Sam, had a cup of tea and, as you can imagine, it didn't take much to be enticed. He's ridiculously charming.
It was a bit of a no-brainer really. I thought I'd be an idiot to say no.'
The second Bridge season begins with As You Like It opening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January next year, followed by The Tempest in February. The Bard's plays will then tour before hitting the Old Vic next summer.
But until rehearsals begin in October, Anne-Marie told me, she'll be taking a break. 'And I'll be eating some cake,' she said laughing.
She's had to be disciplined on the cake front up to now, you see, as she's just finished portraying Britain's first prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn, in a BBC4 film called Margot.
'I was in a leotard and I felt I should at least look as if I was a disciplined dancer.'
For that, she worked with classical choreographers the Ballet Boyz for several weeks before director Otto Bathurst began letting the cameras roll.
Before that project she was in another biographical movie, this time playing John Lennon's mother Julia in Nowhere Boy, an Ecosse film that stars Aaron Johnson and Kristin Scott Thomas and was directed by Sam Taylor-Wood.
Nowhere Boy has the closing night slot at the BFI Times London Film Festival in October.
Caro Newling, who runs Neal Street Productions with Mendes, reminded me that they had originally intended to work with Dillane back in 2007, but for personal reasons the actor had to withdraw.
'We were going to do The Tempest then, so it's really exciting we were able to resume a conversation we'd already begun,' Ms Newling explained.
Hamlet was also talked about then, but two years on there have been a lot of mad Danish royals on our stages.
By the way, the American actor Christian Camargo can also be seen this month in the move The Hurt Locker, about a bomb disposal unit set in Iraq, and it's one of the best pictures I have seen this year.
The first Bridge Project season - with a company that includes Simon Russell Beale, Ethan Hawke, Sinead Cusack and Rebecca Hall - continues at the Old Vic with The Cherry Orchard and The Winter's Tale, running until August 15 before a final date at Epidaurus, the amphitheatre in Greece.
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