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- <text id=89TT2142>
- <title>
- Aug. 14, 1989: Yes, His Majesty The King
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 14, 1989 The Hostage Agony
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 65
- Yes, His Majesty the King
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- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> Ten years ago, Rudolf Nureyev turned down the role of
- Siam's haughty lord and master when it was first offered to him.
- "I thought it would interfere with my dancing," he says. "Now
- the time is propitious." Last week the dancer, 51, was
- rehearsing The King and I for his theatrical debut later this
- month in Toronto, before a tour of U.S. and Canadian cities.
- When he swirls off with the leading lady in Shall We Dance?,
- he'll be performing steps he learned as a boy in the Soviet
- Union. "No, I haven't forgotten how to polka," he says. "But I
- have to make sure that I'm not too good."
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- </body></article>
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