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This fall Kline will return to the theater. He will take the title role in David Hare's adaptation of Chekhov's Ivanov at Lincoln Center, a 10-minute cab ride from his apartment. As we made our way through Manhattan traffic one recent afternoon, I asked Kline if there had ever been a movie role he wished he'd been offered, foolishly imagining that he might occasionally fantasize a more Harrison Ford-like career trajectory. "When I saw John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons," Kline says, "I have to admit I felt some envy about that part. I went right...
...basic reforms. Inspired by two months of demonstrations in next-door Serbia, Bulgarian workers, students, doctors and civil servants are striking, marching and bouncing for change. Taxis sporting opposition flags block the roads, along with people clinging together in human chains. "I earn $21 a month," says Nikolai Ivanov, an airport border-control officer, between bounces. "Any other reason is irrelevant." Says Kiril Korchev, a road laborer: "The communists tricked us. But we're going to stop them. The people are no longer afraid...
...President Boris Yeltsin demanded, "Why are only the Serbs punished?" He warned NATO to halt the air strikes or see Europe again divided into "two camps." American officials assumed most of Yeltsin's protest was for domestic consumption, but they took care to seat Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov prominently at the negotiating table in Geneva...
...spendthrift, he tormented the author all his life, and a standard scene from biographies has Pavel being forcibly kept from Dostoyevsky's deathbed. Nechaev did exist, and Dostoyevsky did transform him into a character in Demons, but the student his gang murdered in a celebrated crime was one Ivan Ivanov. Coetzee could hardly help knowing this, but not a word of preface or footnote explains that historical truth has been meddled with...
...Zhirinovsky: If his name were not Zhirinovsky, it could be Ivanov, Petrov or Sokolov. For a huge country like Russia, it's almost impossible not to have someone like Zhirinovsky emerge in a transitional period. I know Russia very well. Unless something totally unforeseen occurs, Zhirinovsky won't be able to control Russian society completely. How can Zhirinovsky dominate the thinking of Russia's intellectuals...