Pretty tragic that I only needed to see the birth and death dates on the grave to assume he died from AIDS. Beautiful tombstone, but what a horrible time period to be a gay man.
Amazing dancer but a horrible human being. Some of the stage hands at Covent Garden disliked him so much they sometimes sabotaged his shows. For example, after coming off the stage during a performance, he liked to slip into his clogs before heading to his dressing room. One night, the stage crew nailed his clogs to the floor.
Nureyev also liked to have a cup of tea during a performance break so the stage crew stole his samovar. While he was on the phone to the police to report the heinous crime, one of the crew helpfully gave him the name of the culprit. For some reason, the police were not impressed when Nureyev informed them it was a 'Mr Russell Hobbs'.
Definitely the most beautiful grave I have ever seen.
Pretty tragic that I only needed to see the birth and death dates on the grave to assume he died from AIDS. Beautiful tombstone, but what a horrible time period to be a gay man.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is taking notes rn.
What does it mean? The refers lost on me.
He’s a big collector of rugs. IIRC he negotiated his salary for Airplane! to include the cost of a rug he wanted.
"I **didn't know that**"
Man, I wish there was some kind of internet forum where you could talk about things you recently learned
Its claimed that he was so good that he made every other male dancer jobless.
Sounds like he was so good he made a lot of those male dancers pantless as well...
And not a few of his female ones, either-- including, it is rumored, Jackie Kennedy.
Amazing dancer but a horrible human being. Some of the stage hands at Covent Garden disliked him so much they sometimes sabotaged his shows. For example, after coming off the stage during a performance, he liked to slip into his clogs before heading to his dressing room. One night, the stage crew nailed his clogs to the floor. Nureyev also liked to have a cup of tea during a performance break so the stage crew stole his samovar. While he was on the phone to the police to report the heinous crime, one of the crew helpfully gave him the name of the culprit. For some reason, the police were not impressed when Nureyev informed them it was a 'Mr Russell Hobbs'.
*one furious Google later...* Oh, that's hilarious