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Victor is still peeling his garlic gloves..So I suppose I had to...on this mine field...
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Robin Williams.
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Would he qualify?Yul, not tin, I mean.
nationality like a national security secret for some reason (to remain a "man of mystery?").
Here is his bio curtecy of imdb:Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances. Brynner masked much of his life in mystery and in outright lies designed to tease the gullible, and it was not until the publication of a biography by his son in 1989 that many of the details of Brynner's early life became clear(er). He often claimed to be a half-Swiss, half- Japanese named Taidje Khan, born on the island of Sakhalin; in reality he was the son of Boris Bryner, a Swiss-Mongolian engineer and inventor, and Marousia Blagavidova, the daughter of a Russian doctor. He was born in their hometown of Vladivostok on 7 July 1915, and named Yul after his grandfather Jules Bryner. When Yul's father abandoned the family, his mother took Yul and his sister Vera to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the YMCA. In 1934, Yul's mother took her children to Paris. Her son was sent to the exclusive Lycée Moncelle, but his attendance was spotty. He dropped out and became a musician, playing guitar in the nightclubs among the Russian gypsies who gave him his first real sense of family. He met luminaries such as Jean Cocteau and became an apprentice at the Theatre des Mathurins. He worked as a trapeze artists with the famed Cirque d'Hiver company. He traveled to the U.S . in 1941 to study with acting teacher Michael Chekhov and toured the country with Chekhov's theatrical troupe. That same year he debuted in New York as Fabian in Twelfth Night (billed as Youl Bryner). After working in a very early TV series, "Mr. Jones and His Neighbors", he played on Broadway in Lute Song, with 'Mary Martin', winning awards and mild acclaim. He and his wife, actress Virginia Gilmore, starred in the first TV talk show, "Mr. and Mrs." Brynner then joined CBS as a television director. He made his film debut in Port of New York (1949). Two years later, Mary Martin recommended him for the part he would always be known for, the King in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I. Brynner became an immediate sensation in the role, repeating it for film and winning the Oscar for Best Actor. For the next two decades, he maintained a starring film career despite exotic nature of his persona, performing in a wide range of roles from Egyptian pharoahs to Western gunfighters, almost all with the same shaven head and indefinable accent. In the 1970s, he returned to the role that had made him a star, and spent most of the rest of his life touring the world in The King and I. When he developed lung cancer in the mid-1980s, he left a powerful public service announcement denouncing smoking as the cause, for broadcast after his death. The cancer and its complications, after a long illness, ended his life. But he remains one of the most fascinating, unusual, and beloved stars of his time.
My old woman friend did knew him ( she is now 96..) She said to me" He was a very well dressed man, and was looking very great"...
Is Tin like him ?
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I suspect this will generate far less feedback, and the truth is I don't even know the answer to that question.How do you make it "objective"?
I'll promise not to breathe in your direction... although I thought in France the smell of garlic on your breath was the surest way of getting a date.
Someone told me so.
Objective..I wanted to make it even harder......hehe..
Yes, but ONLY in the south of France....
The someone did certainly want to takes your girls aways..bad friend...
Maybe you should start throwing in names, with me and Dmitry shooting them like clay birds? I am sure you have some favorites. There will be far fewer "great" ones than in France or Germany, but some for sure.
I am afraid that the language barriere put a spell on my memory..but...Tatyana ( erotic name)Samojlova....Irina Skobtseva....Vlad. Ivashov....That is it... and of course all the faces in Eisenstein films....
All three are very minor figures. Nikolai Cherkasov - who played Ivan and Alexander Nevsky - on the other hand, has strong reputation.
Not sure..I said problems with Russian names ..but Nevsky I should have remember!
Minor maybe but I remember their playing still after so many years...
Don't take me wrong - both Samoylova and Ivashov played some wonderful roles - more him than her, but in terms of their contribution they are dwarfed by many other actors.Skobtseva never produced any work worth much attention, I think, unless I am forgetting something.
Try Zharov, Simonov, Batalov, Kopelian, Lebedev, Yevstigneyev and many others.
The problem is where can I find the films they have made....
Unfortunately the Soviet/Russian movie industry is little known outside the borders... not unknown, mind you, just nowhere near the level of other countries. Understandable, given its long time isolation, and unfortunate, given the tremndous talent that exists there.Even today you are much more likely to see the Sokurov's "gems" in the West than the works of many fine directors.
Which brings up the question - how does one find which films from a particular country have been released in the West? Is there one such resource somewhere?
What I have done was look at imdb for several Russian actor's names, and I found that some of their works do indeed exist in the Western releases... the prices are however quite high - like $45 for Anna Karenina with Tatyana Samoilova on DVD. But the search for any work of a marvelous actor Yevgeny Yevstigneev produced zero result.
Yes, I must humbly say that I am almost totally ignorant of Russian films, only the few classics...and some like " La Commisaire "...
The culture of Russia I always felt was not unlike the French one. There are some some similitude in mind and spirit, we just are souls brothers.
If you are talking about the film about the Russian woman commisar, then it is a tremendous work.Brothers... like Alexander and Napoleon - I like that!
I think you are right. Much stronger connection than with Germany, Britain or Italy.
Yes, it is the film, one of the very few that did found some echo in Europe.
Brothers in arms ? do you mean..hehehe....
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