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“Stop now! See that? You see that cloud? That beautiful shape?” That is what Ken Reynolds would...
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Alexei Nesterov, an actor in my wife Oksana Mysina’s film, Insulted. Belarus(sia), sent her a...
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Of all the unexpected things I think I might be able to imagine, one I could never have imagined...
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The death of Yury Lyubimov in Moscow on Sunday morning, October 5, 2014, at the age of 97, puts...
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On occasion, rather than buried and hidden somewhere, essences lie right there on the surface,...
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