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Unfortunately the film's screenplay could have used a little Chekhov-or Gorki-as well. Too many lines are overly explicit ("We're like children forgotten in the nursery of a house on fire"); others recall the parody of Woody Allen's Love and Death ("You are choked by boredom"). Mikhalkov could also use some of Renoir's toughness of mind and poetic genius. The Rules of the Game dared to dissect contemporary France; A Slave of Love is essentially a safe nostalgia piece. Where Renoir merged theme, style and narrative into a seamless whole, Mikhalkov...
...fact, Lenin died in bed at his home in Gorki, and his Kremlin desk, which is shown to tourists supposedly in the state he left it, is crowded with all manner of objects...
...Citizen of the World. First editions of Balzac, Stendahl, and Baudelaire. A theatre collection which includes letters of Booth, working scripts of Jean Renoir, letters of John Gielgud, and manuscripts of Shaw. First editions of Appolinaire, Claudel, Camus. Four of Bonhoeffer's manuscripts, written during his imprisonment. Letters of Gorki and Pasternak, of Joyce, O'Casey. Eliot, and Yeats. Working papers of John Updike. A copy of Churchill's Step by Step that John Kennedy owned while an undergraduate...
...Land. But his burly rugger player's build survived both external abuse and the internal erosion of mescal; booze left unbleared a blazing eye. A woman turned up who would (he wrote) "share conditions which make Gorki's Lower Depths look like a drawing-room comedy," and who loved him, tidied his papers, married him, and cosseted his hangovers until he died. She was Margerie Bonner, an actress turned writer, to whose own person and work Lowry remained steadfastly protective (even when she was clearly protecting him). His father's money got him out of Mexico into...
RUSSIAN TRADE SHOW will be staged in Manhattan's Coliseum for four weeks next June-July, history's first major Soviet exhibit in U.S. In return, U.S. will set up exhibit at Moscow's Gorki Park...