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Being able to relate is not as prominent a feature of the other film at the festival with Harvard connections. The Puppeteer, a documentary short about Harvard Square street performer Igor Fokin, was co-produced and directed by Gary Henoch and Chris Schmidt. Fokin, who died in 1996, hand-carved his own puppets and would perform several shows a night to a large and loyal fan base...
...Igor had an uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of both children and adults,” says Henoch. “He was a fixture in Harvard Square, he affected the whole community...
...north approving it should lead to formal partition of the island, in which the north, which is currently recognized only by Ankara , gains international recognition as a separate state. - By Andrew Purvis. With reporting by Anthee Carassava An Open-Source Spy RUSSIA A Moscow court sentenced researcher Igor Sutyagin to 15 years in prison after a jury convicted him of treason for spying. Prosecutors claimed that Sutyagin passed classified defense information to a U.K. company that they say was a CIA front. Sutyagin said that he carried...
...Choreography, Balanchine suggested, wasn?t a lofty art but a craft like that of a cabinetmaker or a chef turning out his sauces and souffl?s. Always he saw himself at the service of the music, particularly that of Igor Stravinsky, a personal and artistic soulmate to whose scores he set 39 works. Instead of elaborately plotting his ballets in advance, he simply rolled up his sleeves and went to work with his dancers. ?Choreography just kept pouring out of him,? says Helgi Tomasson. ?He made up the steps in the studio. I could barely keep up with him. I remember...
...piano teacher in Shine, and he starred in a TV version of Beckett's Catastrophe the year he died. He knew so many historical figures - George Bernard Shaw, Edith Evans, Orson Welles - it's hard to keep track; one 1952 note alone manages to mention meetings with Charlie Chaplin, Igor Stravinsky and Noël Coward. Editor Richard Mangan has mostly concentrated on the correspondents with whom Gielgud was intimate - including his mother, his onetime lover Paul Anstee, the actress Irene Worth, photographer and designer Cecil Beaton and the playwright Hugh Wheeler. The early part of the volume is dominated...