Odin Biron, a wholesome young man from Minnesota who went to study at the Moscow Art Theater, is now a hugely popular actor who co-stars in one of Russia’s most-watched sitcoms and is playing the lead in an acclaimed staging of Gogol’s Dead Souls. Now he’s going public with a fact that could end his career in Russia.
Tag: 02.09.15
Let’s Hear It For Cowardice
The word coward is one of the most contemptuous insults one can hurl at a person. And yet, argues Chris Walsh, cowardice serves more than one important social function.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.09.15
$80.4-Million Question: Why Hasn’t Crystal Bridges Disclosed Purchase of Major Works by O’Keeffe and Johns?
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-09
Arkansas Times Detective Work: Four More Likely Crystal Bridges Acquisitions at Sotheby’s
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-09
The latest track
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-02-09
Ensemble
AJBlog: PianoMorphosis Published 2015-02-09
Music Schools in Transition, Pt. II, i
AJBlog: State of the Art Published 2015-02-09
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What The Heck Happened To Adapting Movies From Novels?
“The novel is now in retreat — and not only in Hollywood — as screenwriters and moviegoers turn their gaze to movies based on established franchises, comic books, graphic novels, musicals, non-fiction books and magazine articles, TV shows, memoirs, and biographies.”
What Makes An Opera Last Forever?
“It’s comic and serious, entertaining and erudite, silly and thoughtful, emotional and mysterious, harrowing and uplifting, intimate and over-the-top — and the more times you see it, the more you’ll find in it and the more you’ll get out of it.”
How To Get Out Of Your Failed Ebook Service Gracefully
“Having managed to offload its online video service Blinkbox Movies to mobile operator TalkTalk, and Blinkbox Music to streaming business Guvera, Tesco has been desperately hunting for a buyer for Blinkbox Books. Last month there was much hope that Waterstones might take it over, and finally make a decisive step into the digital realm, but that bid ultimately failed.”
Why Historians Are Losing Their Audience?
“For the past few centuries, historians have maintained an uneasy truce over the assumption that the search for “facts” should always take precedence over the more fractious difficulty of interpreting them.”