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...outside London town, blonde, swivel-hipped Marilyn Monroe, who is scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth at the annual "command performance" later this month, did not seem displeased when told that M-G-M is "very interested" in having her star in the studio's planned film version of Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Although nobody would take Marilyn seriously when she said a couple of years ago that she wanted to play Grushenka,*M-G-M said last week, "The part is hers, if she doesn't want half the studio...
Geneva-spirited word came from Moscow that Russia's great Author Feodor Dostoevsky, long dead (since 1881), long slurred by Soviet Communists as a reactionary and neglector of anti-czarist struggle, will soon be restored to the U.S.S.R.'s literary Valhalla. Next February the Soviet state publishing house will start issuing a ten-volume edition of Dostoevsky's fiction, not published in Russian since...
Gorin likes Feodor, and before long Novikov's subtle brand of doubletalk has the old writer naively whitewashing Stalinist tyranny by eulogizing Russia's mad despot, Ivan the Terrible. The Kremlin bravos. But Gorin is heartsick at betraying his own values, and makes indiscreet remarks about the regime. From Veria, Feodor receives new orders, and he carries them out by smashing Gorin's head against a radiator until it is a bloody pulp...
This murder comes easily to Feodor, for in the course of the novel's subplots he has already strangled love, honor and his own conscience...
After falling deeply in love with Gorin's daughter Nina (the real Gorky had no daughter), Feodor is warned by his boss: "A Bolshevik cannot mix business with pleasure." Good Bolshevik Feodor drops her and marries a factory manager's daughter, but when the factory manager is denounced as "an enemy of the people" and thrown into a concentration camp, Feodor coolly abandons his pregnant wife...