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DIED. Nelson Poynter, 74, crusty chairman of his own excellent St. Petersburg Times and Evening Independent, and with his late wife Henrietta, a founder of Washington's Congressional Quarterly; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Though they are editorially liberal in a conservative city, the Times and the smaller Independent have flourished and attracted would-be buyers, all of whom Poynter turned down. To be sure that his papers would not be sold after his death, he willed control of both to their editor, Eugene Patterson. Poynter also told Patterson how to report his death...
...This is a crazy place," June's road chum from St. Petersburg testified. "When I went to high school in St. Pete we used to sit around the lake and listen to music and drink beer and one day this Jesus Freak came up to us and started talking Jesus to us and jeez...he was weird! Well, we didn't really want to listen, so we just turned up the music and drank some more beer...
...charm from the compassionate tone, the airy, economical descriptions, and the flashes of pain in between chuckles. Neil Simon shatters Chekhov's mood, replacing it only with his shrill Broadway yocks, heavy-handedness, and sentimentality; moreover, the inherent Semitism of his phrasing transforms the peasants of Moscow and St. Petersburg into citizens of Anatevka. On Broadway, the superb cast of polished goyem almost made you forget Simon; the Hillel actors make you forget Chekhov...
Both face and soul seem as brittle and sere as the last leaf of autumn, and when he greets Anna, who has been in Mos cow, at the St. Petersburg railroad station, his only comment is: "It's good to have you home again. It's quite irksome without you." Vronsky, who has been on the train with Anna, is the opposite...
Most of the exteriors were shot in Hungary, and the streets of old Budapest served for the Moscow and Petersburg of a century ago. The only missing ingredient, an important one, unfortunately, is a sense of Russian spaciousness, a feeling not so much of a country as of a vast sea of land...