“Before she could even tackle the choreography she had to prepare her body, starting more than a year in advance with Mary Helen Bowers, a former City Ballet dancer … Wherever Ms. Portman’s career took her, she trained at least five hours a day with Ms. Bowers, practicing chaînés turns in Bridgehampton or rond de jambes in Belfast.”
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The Film Theory Professor Who’s an Indy Movie Powerhouse
“There really isn’t anyone else like [James] Schamus. There’s no precedent for a real academic – he’s a professor of professional practice in Columbia’s School of the Arts, a teacher and scholar who has served on the editorial board of Cinema Journal – to have a first-rate career as a writer, a producer and an executive in the film industry.”