M "are used to the minted-lobe image of Louis XIV, the Korolyasolnz, the symbol of French absolutism. The pompous phrase “state is me” attributed to him in all textbooks (which he never pronounced) turned Louis into a monument to himself and the state magnitude.

Allen's new film is skilled to the Hollywood paintings of the turn of the 30-40s. As always, the character of Allena-actor drags behind skirts and jokes sarcastically. But this time, Allen-director pays unusually a lot of attention to interior design, ties and tights. “Damn ...” is a real glamor. Cast Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron.

Folklore roots clarify a lot in the work of Tolkien The move of the Tolkienes family from South Africa, where John Ronald Ruel was born in 1892, north, to England, was deeply symbolic. From that moment until the death of Tolkien, the north invariably attracted - not real, geographical, but the mythological north of severe warriors and fire -breathing dragons, hardworking gnomes and mysterious elves, enchanted treasures and wise wizards.

Story is well -known: the officer came to the service for the last time, tomorrow the pension is time to happen. On such a day, police from films usually shoot in innocent people, military personnel are starting a war, and firefighters are breeding bonfires on gas stations. The hero of the “Spy Games” spy, which means he will have to lead a double game all day and, possibly, even linger on work overtime.

On February on February, in the circus of Nikulin, “National to the Circus Prize” 2001 will be awarded. A similar ceremony has been held with large pomp for the third year in a row. However, laureates are usually called all the system at once - participants in the next premiere. The merit of the Nikulinsky circus is that they tried to gather laureates in the non-stop show, solved in the same style of slightly sad erotica.

Vladimir Tarasov, a member of the Vilnius trio Ganelin - Tarasov - Chekasin of the only Soviet team, which went down in the history of jazz (more precisely, jazz vanguard), is well known not only to jazzmen. In the mid-80s, Tarasov was actually released the first album of music with jazz shock in Eastern Europe without any accompaniment (formally earlier Gunther Zommer from the GDR did it, but by that time he had already worked more in West Germany).

If you ask a “person from the street” today, which he knows Russian jazz musicians, many, without hesitation, will call Igor Butman. Indeed, he is all the time in sight: at least once a week appears as a TV presenter of the Jazofniya program on the Culture channel. And although “jazzophrenia” has no less critics than devoted spectators, Butman is convincing in it primarily because he is not a “speaking head”, but a musician. Instead of explaining something for a long and tedious.

Menuhin The singers have reason to argue whose operas are harder: Rossini or Wagner. Pianists can discuss what is more difficult: the works of Schumann or Rachmaninov. The violinists do not have to choose. They have one absolute peak - sonatas and partners (old dancing suits). As in the decoration of the baroque temple, including hundreds of small, jewelry details, these plays contain all the technical and aesthetic difficulties that can be thought up for the violin.

On January 22, a new misfortune was shaken in America: the Kmart Corporation, the third largest network of cheap self -service stores, founded 105 years ago, announced its bankruptcy. After the Kmart published the balance of the first quarter and the disappointing results of the post -people's sales, the rating agencies reduced the status of the company, its shares fell. Left without working capital, Kmart could not pay off suppliers.

The owners of secret knowledge, as a rule, burst out the desire to share this knowledge. To achieve this twofold goal, symbols and signs are unintelligible to the uninitiated. The “secret language” of palm trees and astrologers was not alien to scientific military experts. In this form, the authors of the report on the development of strategic forces of the United States represent the transition from the "triad" of the Cold War to the new strategic triad.

The Ministry of Education will soon begin to work as a quality police. Minister Vladimir Filippov announced this at a meeting of promoters of universities for educational work.

In 2000, the novice author of Percy Kemp released his first Musku novel to the market. This is a sad story about a middle -aged man who discovered that the colon, which he considered an indispensable component of his charm, has changed the smell. It turned out that a large corporation bought a firm that produced the aroma and replaced natural musk in order to save on synthetic. This did not just change the hero’s life, it crippled her.

The former mayor of Grozny Bislan Gantamirov leaves the post of chief federal inspector in the Southern Federal District. When Viktor Kazantsev represented Gantamirov to his apparatus, he emphasized that the new inspector would coordinate the work on the preparation of the Chechnya Constitution, and will also establish ties with parties and social movements of the rebellious republic. Apparently, the constitution did not work out.

Most of the admirers of the Lord of the Rings are convinced that this book should just read without looking for deep meanings and direct analogies in the text. However, there are very unusual approaches to the Tolkien master. After the epic was released in 1955, the point of view that was understandable in the Cold War arose, according to which the book should be understood metaphorically.

Exactly 300 years ago At the beginning of 1702, the war for the Spanish inheritance was still flared up. This conflict in its pan -European scale and the exhausting total was the forerunner of the terrible wars of the New Age, but in the psychology of the main defendants and, according to the very pretext, it owns Gibraltar. And we will talk about the funniest episode of this war. The French troops in Italy were commanded by Francois de Nefwil, the Duke of Villeroa.