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...dance piece she's created for his music--and she's ready for the critics to complain that she's repeating herself. Yet this high-low priestess explains her new approach--the show is set in a nightclub and follows the relationships of four couples--by citing writers like Tolstoy and Balzac (she's been devouring both lately) as well as the Ernest Borgnine movie Marty (which provides the model for one of the couples). Ordinary theatergoers are likely to catch little of this. But they'll see a show that uses dance to make the best case possible...
Walking through Harvard Yard after an English section last fall, another student and I began speculating as to whether any writer had convincingly portrayed the experience of falling in love. Tolstoy developed it too suddenly and Austen privileged convention over emotion. And for Nabokov, love was a clinical affair; a warm body lain on ice. Entomologist, chess-player, master of three languages, and arguably the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century, the ever-meticulous Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov could reach sublime artistic heights, my interlocutor admitted—but who would want to inhabit such chilly...
...only two years ago that Dame Helen Mirren was building up serious momentum in what was ultimately a successful Best Actress Oscar run for The Queen. Mirren is attracting similar raves this year as Leo Tolstoy's wife Countess Sofya in The Last Station. Aristocratic, yes, but the temperamental Countess Sofya is no Windsor. Heading into Golden Globes weekend with a Best Actress nomination, Mirren talked to TIME about gracious award speeches, fiery plate throwing and the half a night she spent in a brothel...
...TIME: Last we saw you, you were the very reserved queen, and now you're throwing dishes at your husband Tolstoy - isn't your audience going to get whiplash...
...fascinating in this film to see Tolstoy and his wife being shot by early paparazzi, which really happened. Do you get it much...