Props are an important part of filmmaking. Sometimes there is a need to show works of art and other rarities in a film. Basically, directors try not to resort to originals: if you break something in the turmoil or lose it, then all the fees will not be enough to pay. Therefore, the viewer is usually stuffed with fakes and props.

On Saturday, the country was again shocked by three explosions, which killed more than 20 people and injured more than 150. The terrorist attacks in Minvody, Essentuki and Cherkessk added another bloody page to the chronicle of the North Caucasus conflict. Again mourning, again tears, again pain... On March 24 at 10.01 a terrible explosion occurred in the small town of Mineralnye Vody. He mixed people into a bloody mess...

It was under these headings that materials about the terrible “their morals” were once published. But today the border between two moralities - and two pictures of the world - passes within the country. As you know, it is impossible to convince either a fanatical believer or a consistent atheist: they interpret any fact from their own positions.

Everyone knows that Mikhail Sergeevich is a long-time fan of the German group Scorpions, which recently visited Moscow. After a performance in Leningrad in 1987, the musicians were so shocked by the changes in Soviet society that they actually dedicated their most famous hit “Wind of Changes” to Gorbachev personally. And when the “scorpions” met with Gorbachev face to face, it was already December 1991. After 11 days, the post of President of the USSR ceased to exist...

A police officer was investigating a murder that he himself committed. Shakespeare is resting From the very beginning, everything about them was not like people. And it’s not even the corpse at the end of this story that is to blame, but its heroes themselves. Since the days of Romeo and Juliet, rarely have relationships been so beautiful, the circumstances of the relationship so cruel, and the story itself covered with such a coating of painful passion, except perhaps for Nabokov’s couple.

A monument to Bulat Okudzhava will soon be erected in Moscow, designed by sculptor Georgy Frangulyan, who won a competition held by the Russian Ministry of Culture. Now the ground is being prepared for the monument - two bronze arches, a statue of Okudzhava himself, marble benches and a live maple tree - on the corner of Arbat and Plotnikov Lane. Engineers are racking their brains over how to lay a concrete foundation for the future statue without damaging communications.

Having almost gone crazy with his love for baseball, about which Costner had already made almost a dozen films, the actor, at 45, unexpectedly played the role of a rare scoundrel, ready to beat up his partner for a sideways glance or an unfiltered bazaar. Few people expected this from Kevin, who preferred syrupy heroes, and therefore “3000 Miles to Graceland” makes an even stronger impression than it should.

Vyacheslav Polunin flew to Moscow from London for just over a day: participation in a meeting of the organizing committee for the preparation of the III World Theater Olympiad starting on April 21, a live broadcast in “Anthropology” by Dmitry Dibrov, several interviews with Russian media... However, it is not the fault of the main actor that he now comes to Russia on holidays and at home he is greeted as an overseas guest...

The English and French don't want sausage. Americans look at their hamburgers with suspicion. Argentine milkmaids have become squeamish and don’t drink milk. At customs, sandwiches with meat have been added to the list of prohibited items - food is mercilessly taken away from the people. Everyone is afraid of a mysterious disease with the funny name “foot and mouth disease”. And no one laughs. What if we go extinct like the ancient lizards?

When 105 Soviet citizens were expelled from Britain in 1971, most of the exiles were in the diplomatic corps, but it was not only diplomats who suffered. One of those expelled was journalist Georgy Kuznetsov, then chief of the APN bureau in London. He told how it happened. “As soon as I entered my office in the APN building, the bell rang,” the journalist tells Interlocutor. — My colleague from The Sunday Times asked if I was on the list. What kind of list? He explained.

From April 1, prices for some products will creep up again. Meat prices will rise, which was quite predictable. “Fear of foot-and-mouth disease and mad cow disease forced us to introduce a ban on the import of imported meat,” Irina Rozanova, an employee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, told Interlocutor. — In this regard, Russian manufacturers have become more active. Taking advantage of the moment, they are going to sharply raise prices for domestic meat.