Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Kevin Kline in Cyrano on PBS --

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=alR6uERB40G4&refer=muse

A very good translation, I thought, and no wonder -- translation is by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)

It sounds like Shakespeare and totally different from the blah film versions I saw before.

Everything in this production is perfect.

Kyi May Kaung

Last days of the Romanovs--There is also a documentary called The Romanovs.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thousands-intimate-photographs-reveal-the-everyday-lives-the-romanovs-russias-last-imperial-family-18...