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Dorothy Hamill: Ice Capades
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Hamill started ice skating when she was eight years old on her grandparent's backyard pond. Her skates were too big, so her grandmother would put stuffing in the toes to make them fit. She asked her mother if she could have lessons so she could learn to skate backwards. Her mother said yes. When she was 12, one morning Hamill couldn't wake her mother Carol for practice at 4:30 a.m. After awaking, Carol found her daughter walking alone in the cold to the rink, 10 miles away, with her skates slung over her shoulder.
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After the Olympics, Dorothy Hamill went on to win the 1976 world championship, and then she turned professional. She was very active on the pro circuit, winning four consecutive professional world titles in the mid 1980s and then starring in - and eventually buying - the financially strapped Ice Capades.
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During the 90-minute production show, Hamill is featured in two skating segments. In the first, she glides to the strains of slower tempo songs such as "It Had To Be You." Her second routine is more contemporary. Accented by a vivid laser light display, five male dancers mirror Hamill's moves in a well-choreographed segment that is an uptempo blend of both dance and ice skating. In a nod to her past, Hamill ... performs her trademark spin, the "Hamill Camel."
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Dorothy Hamill charmed America at the 1976 Olympics with her smile and gold-medal winning performance. In A Skating Life, Ms. Hamill candidly reveals the many personal hardships that she has faced despite her success on ice.
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In 1986, Hamill met sports physician Kenneth Forsythe. They married a year later and had a daughter, Alexandra. When the Ice Capades approached bankruptcy in the early 1990s, Hamill and Forsythe purchased the company and revamped the show. With her connections, Hamill brought in amazingly talented skaters. Though she was working as producer, Hamill ... found time to skate. She played the title role in the company's popular production of "Cinderella . . . Fozen in Time."
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When Dorothy was eight years old, she started to ice skate. She started skating in her grandparents’ backyard. She then started taking skating lessons with Gus Lussi, her coach in Lake Placid, New York.
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