Boris Godunov

Declan Donellan directed a company of Russian actors at the Barbican, London.
Pushkin's "Boris Godunov" with Evgeni Mironov as the 'False Dimitri'..
The time of "Troubles" in Russian history set in Shakespearean tones..
A masterpiece as the author himself aknowledged:
" My tragedy is written: I was reading it aloud to myself, alone, sat there clapping my hands and shouting: 'Well done, Pushkin, well done, son of a bitch...' "

Gregory Crewdson

A sketch of how everything is to fall into place in one of the highly staged Crewdson 's photographs
(see post below)

Gregory Crewdson (II)

At the White Cube gallery in London I was overwhelmed by the new photographs of Gregory Crewdson...
Reminds one of Hopper or David Lynch...
The credits section of a catalogue of his work reads like a producer's factfile of a Holywood movie: light artists, stage managers, special effects, you name it...
A movie director of still frames...

Vladimir Nabokov

The uniqueness of the atmosphere of Cambridge was best described by Nabokov
in his opus magnum of an autobiography "Speak, Memory!"

Fiodor Dostoievsky

A present day Fiodor "The Gambler" Dostoievsky in present day Monte Carlo (London) would find his Moscow Gazette (Izvestia) in a local kiosk, among newspapers from other highly civilized places...
( The newsseller at the South Ken tube station, SW7 )

Andrew Lloyd Weber

The soap-musicals composer and this blogger of yours lived here...

Christian Louboutin (II)

Casanova had a fetiche for delicate silk-laced shoes...

Christian Louboutin

These "Louboutins" remind one of a Ferrari, that's it!

Edward Said

"The Fez", an Orientalism-driven nightclub in Cambridge...

Glubb Pasha

On the window of a shop in Cambridge, a red "kaffieh" like the ones used by the Bedouins of the Arab Legion in Transjordan...

World Wild Life Fund

Pandas are out of fashion?

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