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Several interesting events took place this month (March). In particular:
The cabaret duo "AKADEMIYA" decided to officially register their relationship, despite having previously tied the knot in Las Vegas. According to Sasha and Lolita, this avoids a lot of paperwork hassle, because for a marriage to be legally recognized over here (CIS, Russia), a wedding certificate issued in America must be submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make an inquiry to Las Vegas, even though the marriage is considered valid in the United States and worldwide.
In his registration application, Sasha explained the reason as follows: "All these years we never had the time to get married due to our hectic touring schedule, and now, finally, after having a daughter, we decided to register our relationship."
Speaking of the daughter, I almost forgot to mention: she was born in November, prematurely, and was kept in an incubator to develop; she is now 3 months old and named Eva. Lolita issued an ultimatum to Sasha regarding her surname, so Eva now carries her mother's surname — Milyavskaya. According to Lolita, Eva Milyavskaya sounds much better than Eva Tsekalo, and she promised him a baby boy in a year and a half who will bear Sasha's name.
Tatiana Ovsienko also got herself a child.
During a summer tour, the program included a charity concert, and they decided to donate part of the proceeds to orphanages. There she saw a boy leafing through an algebra textbook. The director explained that he had a severe congenital heart defect, the surgery was expensive... and he wouldn't make it.
Upon returning to Moscow, Tanya together with Igor Arkhipov persuaded a research institute (some institute, anyway :)) to perform the surgery; they brought the little boy in and got him properly fixed up :)
Later, she decided to adopt the boy. One day Tatiana woke up, walked up to the toddler, and he said for the very first time: "MAMA".
Natalya Senchukova and Viktor Rybin also had a baby.
At 10:30 AM on February 12, a baby was born in one of Moscow's prestigious hospitals (Natasha had her own private room there with a telephone and a TV :). The doctors helped a little via Cesarean section, but without general anesthesia.
"I was fully conscious — the doctors gave me a spinal anesthetic. It's my firstborn, so I wanted to see everything. I understood everything that was happening, how three doctors were fussing with instruments and 'squeezing' him out, while the fourth was joking around and telling anecdotes :)..."
Height: 53 cm, weight: 3,750 g.
Another birthday:
On the last day of winter, ALISA celebrated its 15th anniversary.
KREMATORIY is working on new music videos, though they are currently brainstorming the scripts. Apparently, since the days of Outsider and Garbage Wind, thinking has become harder for them :)
At the moment, their tracklist includes "Mister Tyson" and "Zveroyashcher" from the new album, as well as the song "2001". Concept ideas can be submitted not only by seasoned screenwriters but also by fans, who can post their treatments on Krematoriy's website on the Internet. In parallel, the band is preparing for an American tour.
20 Cinematic Ways to Depart This Life
- Alcohol. Developing an addiction is easy, quitting is tough. Ask Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, 1995).
- Paper. Tear a book into tiny shreds and stuff your rival with them. Everyone will appreciate your originality, but cruel revenge awaits you — you'll have to eat your victim (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, 1989).
- Vibrator. Typically used by deranged priests to punish prostitutes for adultery (Crimes of Passion, 1984).
- Lawnmower. A splendid way to mince reanimated corpses (Braindead / Dead Alive, 1992).
- Food. If you want to punish someone for gluttony, let them eat their fill (La Grande Bouffe, 1973; Se7en, 1995).
- Drain Cleaner. Tie your victim to the toilet, pry their mouth open, and pour down all the sanitary cleaning liquid from the shelf. No, don't do it! The corpse will look hideous afterwards (Urban Legend, 1998).
- Dental Clinic. People fear dentist offices for good reason. While a drill grinds into your teeth, your imagination conjures the darkest pictures. The cry "Doctor, you're killing me!" can sometimes be literal (The Dentist, 1996).
- Computer Keyboard. In a high-tech world, the murder weapon must be high-tech (Gattaca, 1997).
- Coffee Table. If your forehead hits the corner of a lovely coffee table, you might just stumble right into a script by David Lynch himself (Lost Highway, 1997).
- Meat Hook. A fine item to experiment with. You can impale someone on it (Line of Life, 1996), or replace your own hand with it and take revenge on foolish teenagers (I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1997).
- Elevator. This killer lives right in your apartment building (The Serpent's Egg, 1977; Trauma, 1993).
- Ice Pick. Now a world-famous method — this is precisely what made Sharon Stone a superstar (Basic Instinct, 1992).
- Outer Space. Blowing an alien out of an airlock is Sigourney Weaver's favorite pastime. She does it in every film, except the one where she dies herself (Alien, 1979; Aliens, 1986; Alien: Resurrection, 1997).
- Condom. Granted, it's hard to call a condom that bites off a penis a true assassin, but agree that life without love is no life at all (Killer Condom, 1996).
- Crucifix. If you cast Dolph Lundgren as a preacher, naturally he'll assume a crucifix is just another weapon (Johnny Mnemonic, 1995).
- Sex. A wealth of interpretations. You can squeeze the neck of masochist Tatjana Patitz a bit too tight (Rising Sun, 1993); cast Madonna in her Sex book and Erotica album era (Body of Evidence, 1993); or better yet, ask Natasha Henstridge to be more accommodating with men (Species, 1995; Species II, 1998).
- Television Set. You can kill with this bulky object in various ways: with a deadpan expression (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, 1986), or with tongue-in-cheek irony (Scream, 1996).
- Terminator. The ultimate killing machine. Takes no prisoners — what would he need them for? (The Terminator, 1984; Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991).
- Stocking. Frequently used for purely feminine revenge (Three Stories, 1997).
- Bathtub Appliances. A marvelous way to get rid of a bothersome husband (Addams Family Values, 1993). But the most hilarious story is told in Delicatessen (1991): an absurd, suicidal woman tries to end her life once again by rigging an elaborate contraption to drop a lamp into her bathtub. Naturally, it fails once again.
Nikita Named Peta
(Continued)
Naturalist, Athlete, and Simply Gorgeous
Peta's athletic achievements did not go unnoticed. Advertising executives are human too, and many of them love basketball.
An athletic, striking blonde quickly caught the eye of one of them, and she was invited to try modeling. Perhaps her strict, military-minded parents could have joined forces to oppose such a frivolous move, but alas, they had divorced when Peta was just eleven.
Although normal relations between the ex-spouses were maintained, they could no longer form a united front. Peta, in full accordance with the laws of military strategy and tactics, attacked Mom and Dad individually — and convinced both of them.
It wasn't that she dreamed day and night of becoming a glamour model like thousands of her peers. The girl was lured by the opportunity to earn her own living and explore the world. Soon, Peta Wilson became one of Australia's most sought-after fashion models, and securing her for an advertising campaign was a matter of pride for any major company. She advertised everything from Levi's jeans to loose maternity dresses...
Having conquered her home continent, Peta set off for Europe. But she couldn't displace the established models there.
What happened next is reminiscent of the path taken by another series lead — Highlander's Adrian Paul, who also transitioned from modeling to acting.
Peta settled in Los Angeles and fell head over heels in love, first with the city, and then with one of its residents — director Damian Harris. They rented a house in the Hollywood Hills, and twenty-year-old Peta enrolled in a prestigious acting school. A few years later, she made her first television appearance: a guest role in an episode of... Highlander.
There were bit parts in several feature films as well, though their titles ring few bells even in America. And then she went to audition for the lead in a new television series, La Femme Nikita, alongside two hundred other hopefuls. She was chosen immediately, yet she hesitated and debated for six weeks whether to accept or decline.
She was simply terrified. She had watched Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita and its American remake Point of No Return several times. She admired Anne Parillaud's performance in the former and Bridget Fonda's in the latter, constantly wondering: could she ever measure up?
And yet, she took the plunge...
(To be continued)
Roy Dupuis
(Continued)
Roy never confessed how many liters of coffee he consumed before his entrance exams at the National Theatre School of Canada. Remarkably, just a couple of months earlier he had had zero interest in theater — until a fateful "Day X".
An accomplished hockey player, gymnast, and basketballer, Roy was nevertheless seriously invested in physics at school and even contemplated a career in science. But then his family relocated from the shores of Lake Ontario to Montreal, and Roy, purely by chance, attended a popular staging of Molière by the National troupe. The next day, he announced his firm decision to abandon the natural sciences and audition for theater school.
And here Roy struck gold. A friend of his, who was supposed to audition for that very same National School, changed his mind for some reason and gave up his audition slot to Roy. Later it turned out that during the callbacks, he was competing against two thousand applicants for a single spot. Many of them, unlike Roy, had dreamed of a stage career practically all their conscious lives and had prepared exhaustively.
(To be continued...)
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