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Today, the Presnyakov brothers' Yekaterinburg theater no longer exists, and their hometown doesn't seem to be aware of their world fame. The brothers shrug it off. They launched their theater, they say, when many people were traumatized by misguided reforms that suddenly wrenched their lives out of joint. The theater tried to help people cope with an uncertain future. These days, however, they see different problems on the rise. "This country is getting rigidly controlled again," Oleg says. "Once the brief spell of freedom shrinks, the state accepts only its controlled appointees, rather than those who spring up spontaneously...
...thrilled at being rewarded instead of hounded for expressing their feelings in their work. Fundamental issues like politics, ideology and spirituality remain important themes. Images of Mao Zedong, the Red Guards and other icons of the recent past are central to the works that have brought many of them fame...
...looked pretty geeky.” Flown out to Los Angeles to live in a mansion for five weeks of luxury, Dern attests wholeheartedly that “it was an incredible experience.” The show, though, was hardly Dern’s first taste of fame. During its reign as Harvard’s only band dedicated to Han Solo and the crew of the Millennium Falcon, So Long Princess has acquired a modest following and is slated to represent Harvard in an upcoming battle of the bands competition in Boston. They perform about three times...
DIED. Claude Jade, 58, French actress who shot to fame as the heroine, opposite leading man Jean-Pierre Laud, of three of Franois Truffaut's best-loved films, Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run; of eye cancer; in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The bittersweet, semiautobiographical films follow the journey of a man through falling in love, marriage and divorce...
...DIED. Claude Jade, 58, French actress who shot to fame as the heroine of three of François Truffaut's best-loved films, the bittersweet, semi-autobiographical trilogy Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run; of eye cancer; in Boulogne-Billancourt, France...