Last week, at the Central House of Artists, known as the Central House of Artists, an evening of Roman Mayorov took place - 40 years of creative composing activity. When a person is young, he does not think about old age - the whole world belongs to him, and when he grows old, he pays attention to the fact that everyone around him is young - both the doctors treating him and the people on public transport. This is how man is made.

The exhibition “The Tie and the Aesthetics of Sigmund Freud” has opened at the Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg. People's eyes were opened to the intimate underside of this accessory and they were allowed to touch, among others, the ties of Eduard Khil, Oleg Garkusha, and Governor Vladimir Yakovlev. Dr. Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, believed that a tie is a phallic symbol and reflects all the secret desires of the owner. The more ties a man has, the fewer secrets he has.

“You look lousy, sir,” Red Dragon producer told Anthony Hopkins. “You urgently need to look younger.” “Red Dragon” is a prequel to “The Silence of the Lambs,” where Hopkins will again play the maniac Hannibal Lecter. The action of the new film takes place ten years before the events of the first film, and therefore the producers decided to pay 64-year-old Hopkins for a rejuvenation course. The actor regularly visits the gym to lose weight and constantly visits the beauty salon.

A sea of ​​beer, as well as all kinds of snacks, was offered to guests of the Fourth Great Moscow Beer Festival, which opened on Saturday, July 13. The festival was opened personally by Yuri Luzhkov. Among the guests was Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who did not miss any of the Moscow beer festivals. For nine days, the most popular brands of foamy drink and snacks for it - crackers, salted nuts, dried and dried fish, dried deer meat, etc. - were celebrated in Luzhniki.

The good old fairy tale about the fact that every person on earth has a double was turned into a terrible reality by Yaroslavl judges and police officers. The extortionist knocked on the police department. Hammer The Yaroslavl Department of Internal Affairs knew in advance about the visit of the Ukrainian Minister Boris Gryzlov. While waiting for the capital's guest, the regional police were slightly feverish.

This is what law enforcement officers in the city of Nizhnevartovsk think. From election to election to the State Duma, the stakes grow exponentially. In order to get the coveted seat on Okhotny Ryad, the governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug, Alexander Filipenko, decided to delegate his deputy Vladimir Alekseev to the by-elections. But he has a fairly strong competitor - local oligarch, authoritative owner of Nizhnevartovsk gas stations, Alexander Peterman.

The domestic elite has suffered a real epidemic: the families of celebrities are bursting one after another, as if the end of the world is coming in their small starry galaxy. Even those couples who seemed inseparable, like Chip and Dale or Coca and Cola, are scattering. Horror! I just want to ask: have you gone crazy?! THE MERMAID swam away to Tarzan Natasha Koroleva’s departure from Igor Nikolaev came as a complete surprise to many. Nothing, it would seem, foreshadowed trouble.

IT’S GOOD THAT the world’s only reusable spaceship for tourists is almost ready at the Myasishchev Experimental Engineering Plant in the town of Zhukovsky near Moscow. “This device looks like a small plane in appearance,” Svetlana Dyndykina, the leading specialist of the project, told Interlocutor. - True, it only has a capacity of three people. According to Svetlana, the duration of the flight on the space plane will be short - about an hour.

My daughter will soon be twelve. I am 20 years older than her, but I remember myself quite well at that age. It’s simply amazing how little this child resembles me, except in height: she is also the smallest in the class. My diary was decorated with many round, pretty fives. I cried because of the B's. “Bananas” don’t upset my daughter either. On the occasion of her high fives, we organize small celebrations. By the time I was twelve, I had read my entire home library.

In the Moscow Presnensky Court, a closed trial on a claim for recognition of paternity and collection of alimony from the head coach of the Russian Olympic hockey team Vyacheslav Fetisov in favor of 13-year-old Masha Isaeva ended. Her mother Lyubov Isaeva claimed that the famous athlete is the girl’s father. “The court learned about the romance between the singer and the hockey player only from Isaeva’s words,” Fetisov’s lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky told Interlocutor.

Last week, the head of the interim administration of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, visited the capital. His visit caused a lot of noise. The guest attended a reception with President Putin, spoke with Foreign Minister Ivanov and Chairman of the Federation Council Mironov, and at the end of the visit he visited the State Duma, where he talked with Speaker Seleznev.

Four years ago, Sly read a script in which the main character, although not an intellectual, left a rather pleasant impression: neither the size of his muscles nor the ability to put his opponent down with a right hook were of decisive importance. A director who had just made I Know What You Did Last Summer came on board, and Stallone was expecting a hit.

Russia softened from sadness And the collapse of the ruble awaits: The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules* - His radical departure! In spite of the fierce opposition, Looking around, and not deep, - It is the main Russian currency I didn’t count “green”, but “rubles”! But, despising the will of millions, They pushed him off the ship: Desperate Illarionov Wishes the ruble to fall. The Central Bank mourns Hercules, Unable to accept resignation... But you guessed it, didn't you?

IT IS GOOD THAT the rector of the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary at the Optina Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Hieromonk Rostislav, began breeding ostriches. The clergyman was inspired to do this by the example of one of his parishioners.

There will be even more shops in the capital: another one, just as big and beautiful, will be built next to the Central Department Store. “This will be a five-story building in the historical part of Kuznetsky Most and Petrovka, with a multi-tiered parking lot,” Alexander Voskoboynikov, general director of OJSC “Trading House TSUM,” told Interlocutor. — We plan to create what is already practiced in trading houses in Europe and America.