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Nina convinces Thomas to allow her to take back her role. Towards the end of the ballet's second act, Nina is distracted by a hallucination and loses her balance during a lift, causing a male dancer to drop her, infuriating Thomas. Nina returns to her dressing room and finds Lily preparing to play Odile.
Nina Sayers Won 2016: Isabelle Huppert: Elle: Michèle Leblanc Nominated Huppert is of Hungarian-Jewish descent Natalie Portman: Jackie: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Nominated 2019: Scarlett Johansson: Marriage Story: Nicole Barber Nominated 2021: Kristen Stewart: Spencer: Diana, Princess of Wales (née Spencer) Nominated Jewish mother [1]
Sayers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Sayers, New Zealand athlete; Ben Sayers, early professional golfer; Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer; Edna Sayers (1912–1986), Australian cyclist; Edward Sayers (aviator) (1897–1918), English World War I flying ace; Edward Sayers (doctor) (1902–1985 ...
Dorothy Sayers' co-author, under the pseudonym of Robert Eustace, was Dr Eustace Barton, a physician who also wrote medico-legal thrillers. Barton suggested to Sayers the scientific theme crucial to the novel's dénouement, which concerns the difference between a naturally produced organic compound and the corresponding synthetic material, and ...
Natalie Portman - Black Swan as Nina Sayers; Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3; Best Cast: The Kids Are All Right; Best Cinematography Black Swan - Matthew Libatique; Best Debut Director: John Wells - The Company Men; Best Director: David Fincher - The Social Network; Best Documentary Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop; Best Film: The Social Network
A Presumption of Death is a 2002 Lord Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mystery novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L. Sayers.The novel is Walsh's first original Lord Peter Wimsey novel, following Thrones, Dominations, which Sayers left as an unfinished manuscript, and was completed by Walsh.
Writing in 1990 Katherine Kenny described the book as the most successful of Sayers' early fiction, coupling a slick detective plot with vivid details of post-war English life. "The book is a tightly constructed little drama based upon the old joke about an Englishman's club so stuffy that its dead members cannot be differentiated from the ...
Peter alone suffers from fatuousness overdone, a period fault that Sayers soon blotted out". [4] A. N. Wilson, writing in 1993, noted that "The publisher made [Sayers] tone the story down, but the plot depends on Lord Peter being clever enough to spot that the body, uncircumcised, is not that of a Jew". [5]