Word: orpheus
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...mean people like the eye surgeon Svyatoslav Fyodorov and the other Fyodorov, who opened the first private restaurant in Moscow and the first Muscovite restaurant in New York. I mean Mstislav Rostropovich, the great cellist who, mingling with the pro-democracy crowds in Moscow, was like a new Orpheus descended in the hell of the coup. I mean the 10- and 12-year-old boys, Muscovites of the 21st century, who are earning their first money by wiping windshields of cars stopped at red lights...
...ORPHEUS DESCENDING (TNT, premiering Sept. 24). Vanessa Redgrave dazzled London in a 1988 revival of Tennessee Williams' 1957 flop. Playing an Italian- American misfit in a small Southern town, she was less rapturously received in the subsequent Broadway production (the basis for this film). Still, her over-the-top performance fascinates...