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Re: What have you seen on YouTube recently?
« Reply #420 on: August 01, 2014, 03:02:03 AM »

Dmitry, the movie was beautifully filmed and directed, and the acting and was superb...


Doctor Zhivago (1965) Trailer





And the soundtrack tugs at the Russian soul...


Doctor Zhivago Opening Credits

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« Reply #421 on: August 01, 2014, 05:44:04 AM »

I saw the movie long ago, when you suggest it to me. To be true I didn't like it at all, because it looks to me very unnatural. You know Russians have a different view on Russia than americans have ha2ha

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« Reply #422 on: August 01, 2014, 04:18:10 PM »

Perhaps, but the movie was British.
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« Reply #423 on: August 01, 2014, 10:24:14 PM »



I've never read Dr. Zhivago (or seen the movie); I'll have to remedy that. 
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« Reply #424 on: August 02, 2014, 12:13:10 AM »

Parts of this had me laughing pretty hard.

http://youtu.be/0_yj-ZNi9DI
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« Reply #425 on: August 02, 2014, 05:20:43 AM »


I've never read Dr. Zhivago (or seen the movie); I'll have to remedy that.



This surprises me, Kathleen.  The Forum Bookworm has not read Doctor Zhivago?! 

I think you'll like the novel and the poetry.  There's an interesting story behind it.  The novel was refused publication in the USSR because it dwelled on the personal life which socialist doctrine rejected.  The manuscript was smuggled to Italy where it was first published.  In the USSR, manuscripts were typed and copied (samizdat) and circulated from reader to reader.  There were harsh penalties for copying or being in possession of censored material.  Boris Pasternak's life was made very difficult as a result and he was threatened with arrest and deportation as an enemy of the state.  He won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature which he had to decline.  He was told that if he traveled to Stockholm to accept the award, he would be refused re-entry to the Soviet Union.  He wrote this to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev:  "Leaving the motherland will equal death for me.  I am tied to Russia by birth, by life and work."

The motion picture is loosely based on the novel but is epic in proportions and was a treat to see in the movie theater.  It remains the highest grossing film of all time.  I think you'll enjoy the film for its various character studies shown against the tumultuous backdrop of World War I and The Russian Revolution.

This particular scene exemplifies the experience shared by both the novel's protagonist and the author...


Strelnikov and Zhivago

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« Reply #426 on: August 02, 2014, 04:32:46 PM »


^^^

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Thanks so much for the background information, Barry; that is really interesting. Now I will definitely have to get a copy.

I was teased for years in high school, and even college, about my love of reading, and so I self-consciously gave it up for a few years. In grad school I tried to make up for lost time. I remember the first book I picked up was Pearl Buck's The Good Earth; it's still a top favorite of mine.

I also need to know details such as this for my work. I was reprimanded last year for not catching a misspelling of Anne Sexton's name....and I see I erroneously abbreviated the "Doctor" in Doctor Zhivago.

The thought of typing up copies of that book -- it's quite lengthy, is it not? -- is really daunting.
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« Reply #427 on: August 02, 2014, 11:07:18 PM »

The thought of typing up copies of that book -- it's quite lengthy, is it not? -- is really daunting.


My hardcover first edition (Pantheon 1958) is 558 pages, Kathleen. 

Here's a reprint of the hardcover edition published by Pantheon Books:  Doctor Zhivago
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Re: What have you seen on YouTube recently?
« Reply #431 on: September 14, 2014, 01:49:33 AM »

http://youtu.be/NKtoskzi9Pc

Gene Krupa, Sammy Davis Jr. and Buddy Rich

http://youtu.be/USxvJFfKXrE
and Sammy!
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« Reply #432 on: September 14, 2014, 06:50:08 PM »



That's some fancy footwork! I had no idea Sammy Davis Jr. was so graceful.
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« Reply #433 on: September 15, 2014, 04:04:13 AM »


That's some fancy footwork! I had no idea Sammy Davis Jr. was so graceful.


Sammy Davis Jr. at age 7...


Sammy Davis Jr (Rufus Jones): "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You"
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Re: What have you seen on YouTube recently?
« Reply #436 on: October 19, 2014, 02:02:31 AM »

Having a quiet day reliving cheesy Australian acts from the 70s and 80s.

Ladies and gentlemen I present...William Shakespeare.

http://youtu.be/C7YF0b1Rifc
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Re: What have you seen on YouTube recently?
« Reply #437 on: October 19, 2014, 02:04:41 AM »

And.... The Nolans!! (Oops just realised these girls weren't Aussies. Must have thought they were due to their ubiquitousness back then).

http://youtu.be/XLcZ_wtzoSs
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Re: What have you seen on YouTube recently?
« Reply #438 on: October 19, 2014, 02:14:09 AM »

Here's a genuine Aussie one instead

http://youtu.be/vaZjaZz7WAM
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