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From the horse's mouth
26 September 2025 04:52 amChristopher Lee himself on sword-fighting in film (with demonstrations!), and the advantages of working with stuntmen as opposed to actors :-)
26 September 2025
More unexpected connections
26 September 2025 05:16 pmI just stumbled across Lois McMaster Bujold's account of a visit to "The Congress of Russian Science Fiction Writers" in September 2000. https://hell.pl/szymon/Baen/Cryoburn/Travel%20Memoirs/Russian%20Impressions.doc
And after finding an online site to convert it out of Microsoft Word format, I was astonished and amused in the first page to stumble upon a description of the in-flight movie as a Russian-made American Western starring "[and rather delightfully, I might add] M.Boyarski and O.Tabakov" (d'Artagnan and Louis XIII)! I'm pretty sure this must be the movie that I've seen multiple stills from, cited as having originated Boyarsky's now-iconic public image with broad-brimmed black hat and black clothing in his screen role as the character "Chërniy Jack" :-D
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And after finding an online site to convert it out of Microsoft Word format, I was astonished and amused in the first page to stumble upon a description of the in-flight movie as a Russian-made American Western starring "[and rather delightfully, I might add] M.Boyarski and O.Tabakov" (d'Artagnan and Louis XIII)! I'm pretty sure this must be the movie that I've seen multiple stills from, cited as having originated Boyarsky's now-iconic public image with broad-brimmed black hat and black clothing in his screen role as the character "Chërniy Jack" :-D
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