Word: irina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labyrinthine complications of the script use birth control pills for comic fuel the way French farce uses bedrooms. Gerald Hardcastle (David Niven), an elegant British banker with a cool million and a cooler mistress (Irina Demick), decides that he wants out of his dreary twelve-year marriage. Knowing that his wife Prudence (Deborah Kerr) has hardly been faithful herself, he substitutes aspirin for her birth control pills in hopes that she'll become pregnant by her lover so he can sue for divorce. Meanwhile, the Hardcastle maid decides to yield to her boy friend's advances and swipes...
...Dead. Sandy got her comeuppance during the ill-fated Actors Studio London run in 1965. Playing Irina in Chekhov's Three Sisters after too little rehearsal, she was booed and got the worst roasting of her career. The London Times described Sandy and Kim Stanley, who played another of the sisters, as "ludicrous and painful." Zeroing in on Sandy's speech ("I-er-I-ah"), Critic Bernard Levin of the Daily Mail reported that "I could barely restrain myself from screaming aloud with the pain of my throbbing nerves." Worse, Sandy was bypassed for the screen versions...
...IRINA ARKHIPOVA: RUSSIAN OPERA & CANTATA ARIAS (Melodiya/Angel). The dark passion of good Russian music is welcome to even the most jaded ears, and this collection of arias is particularly affecting. While most of the composers (Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev) are familiar, the excerpts are less so. Among the most intriguing is from Not Love Alone, an opera about the love life on a collective farm by Rodion Shchedrin. The youngest composer represented on the album (and husband of Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya), Shchedrin finds room for originality within conventional Soviet Realism-which means late, late, late Romanticism. However superficial, his melodies...
Most of the girls took the news with aplomb. But some of the biggest stars failed to show up for one reason or another. Russia's Press sisters, Tamara and Irina, who between them own four world records (and are known to their competitors as "the Press brothers") stayed home to care for their sick mother. Russian Runners Tatiana Schelkanova and Maria Itkina were side lined with undisclosed injuries. Rumania's towering (6 ft. ½ in.) Iolanda Balas, the current world record holder in the ladies' high jump, went to Budapest-but only as a spectator, wearing...
...swami act is last seen floating in the Seine, and Veteran Actress Françhise Rosay rabbets in some surprises as a hardened crone who rents out high-powered burglary tools by the hour. Any doubt that the female is the deadlier of the species is dispelled by shapely Irina Demick, who shows up rather late as an art gallery receptionist all abustle with her own bright ideas about framing. A sweet and submissive mantrap, Irina ultimately makes away with an art collection, most of the petty cash, and the show...