I can perform, i can choreograph, i can assist you. And i got a note back saying come on. [ laughs ] jerry was making money hand over fist and balanchine had although he had done good work on broadway had never been terribly successful, the way jerry was being. I mean, jerry was really the king of broadway. Jerry was connected to a different audience and had a popular point of view that he felt would be useful. And remember in those days new York City Ballet was considered very, very elite. It was high tone. Sometimes on a matinee thered be more dancers onstage than in the audience and we were like 40 people in the company. The whole idea of him choosing to work with balanchine, somebody whom he clearly admired and somebody whom he thought was better than him, that said a lot about jerry. Mikhail baryshnikov he made this really extraordinary choice and he changed his life. He just admired a man who sometimes treated him roughly, too, you know, in front of a lot of people, you know. But
Another. He actually talked about the use of Nuclear Weapons, both in the middle east and in europe. You wonder about his hand or his thumb getting any close to the critical button that president s are in charge of. Number three, he says we should basically abolish the Geneva Convention which was created to make sure we had fair treatment for anybody who could be captured in war and that somehow we ought to abolish the Geneva Convention and engage in i guess more torture, which doesnt set well with any of the people who have served our country so honorably. Hes called nato basically to be abolished. I cant figure out what his position is today. I happen to believe that nato needs to be strengthened. And then one of the most curious i dont even know how he went there. Is that in picking the Supreme Court justice, that donald trump suggested that we have to that any Supreme Court justice must make a commitment to review and investigate hillarys emails. I dont even know how you do that. T
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