As an entertainment journalist in the Hollywood Foreign Press, it was my pleasure to interview Signe Baumane, an artist from Latvia, writer/director of the animated feature My Love Affair with Marriage, that premiered June 11 at the Tribeca Film Festival. I was sent a preview link to watch this amazing film, and it touched a …
Kharkiv is the 2nd largest city in Ukraine. It’s now being pounded by Russian troops & missles daily, fighting desperately for its life and survival. It’s also where my paternal grandfather, Meyer, was born. I always wanted to, and planned on, going there, to see the place my grandfather was from. But I when I …
I miss the Soviet hammer and sickle. When I first visited Russia – then called the Soviet Union – the symbol was everywhere, along with those treacly-romantic billboards of Vladimir Lenin reading to children: the patriarch who would solve everything. As a symbol of proletariat solidarity, the hammer and sickle was terrific branding (peasantry and working-class …
The fifth-most watched YouTube video in the world of all time is an episode of a Russian cartoon for little children. The formidable title of being the “most viewed non-music video” belongs to it as well. Titled “Recipe for Disaster”, the 17th instalment in the Russian cartoon series Masha and the Bear (Masha i Medved) …
I flew to Moscow on New Year’s Day – 35 years after I first landed there in 1985 during the Soviet era. I was curious about what had changed, what had stayed the same, and moreover, where this storied land was headed, especially during our election year with Vladimir Putin on so many American minds. In …
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Puttin’ on the Ritz in Moscow Flashmob With bravado, gymnastics, synchronicity, choreography, crazy Russian energy and unbridled joy, this Moscow flashmob performs Irving Berlin’s classic “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” As more and more people join in, and the staging (not to mention the camera work) becomes more and more elaborate, you’ll probably agree with us: …
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