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Pushkin, who wanted to be a Byron and died in a bourgeois duel, uncovered Russia's deepest melancholy in Boris Godunov, its worst superficialities in Eugene One gin. Tolstoy need not have written the great length of War & Peace to portray the best Russia; his typical common Russian, the soldier Karatasv, stands "an unfathomable, rounded-off and everlasting personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth." Glinka's Ruslan and Liudmila sang the gay folk tunes; Tchaikovsky's Pathetique caught in single chords all the national sadness...
TIME cannot undertake to portray the Duke and Duchess of Windsor as shimmering dream children in order to spare the feelings of incurable romantics...
Alvin York, now 53, weighing 275 but still looking mighty fit, made three stipulations before surrendering to Holly wood: 1) that Gary Cooper impersonate him; 2) that no oomphy (or any other kind of grunt) girl portray his wife; 3) that the picture be an honest account. Result: one of the cinema's most memorable screen biographies...
...first reported effect of the law was to keep 20th Century-Fox from adding more bullfight scenes to Blood and Sand to please Mexicans. But the object of the law was something else. If other Latin-American countries follow Mexico's lead, producers will have to portray Latin Americans as Latin Americans like to be portrayed...
...exaggerated a bit the space between the wealthy and the other classes and the insurmountability of the social barriers; but he had to, in order to make his point evident. This director of ours knew that he faced a problem, realising that each one of his actors had to portray his role so that the public could get the significance of the theme and the subtletics involved. Judging from the results, the director was as intelligent as the author; for, "Philadelphia Story" is easily one of the top shows...