Conversational football with Slutsky and Kazan became a gift to fans

Those who like to simply answer difficult questions and vice versa can see Denis in “What? Where? When? ”, He represents one betting company there and always has something to say. In general, Kazansky is a great commentator, a follower of the magnificent Yuri Rozanov of blessed memory, because football and hockey are his documents. Unfortunately, he left Match TV and now settled on the First.

The minus of the new program is the lack of a picture, showing goals, dangerous moments, because all this (exclusive rights) belongs to the Match. Conversational football – what is it?

Plus: you can talk about football so beautifully, juicy, brightly, and Kazansky is trying very hard.

The second plus: Leonid Slutsky, co-host of Denis. And from him you expect smart, analytical, very subtle, but sometimes ironic remarks. And Slutsky is always on horseback. (For those who don’t know: he led the army team to the championship three times, so the horse is our man.)

Another plus: very talented correspondents from Evening Urgant Roman Yunusov and Konstantin Anisimov moved here and make reports, thanks to which animal seriousness completely disappears from the Russian football championship, and only untethered, but good humor comes to the brink of the possible, which makes the best game with the ball, as well as domestic poskonnoe superiority unusually exciting. So the fans were presented with a gift, I will definitely continue to watch it.

And now let me say a few words without a protocol about Leonid Slutsky. The man who gave so much joy and hope to us army fans. Then he worked with the national team, then abroad, in England and the Netherlands. He returned, headed Rubin, almost got into the prize-winners with him. And then the sanctions, all the foreigners left, and Slutsky and Rubin began to fall down. They flew out of the Premier League, and in the first they didn’t shine at all. He was fired, and now he’s on TV. Looks great. And somewhere his beautiful bald head disappeared. Well, yes, the man has grown hair on his head and now he has a magnificent head of hair. I just compared these two events: his disqualification as a coach and a bald head that no longer exists. And I understood everything about him: the bald head was simply necessary for him. What can I say – it was a magical bald head, golden. Having lost it, Slutsky lost coaching magic. And on a philosophical, human level – you need to love yourself the way you are, in no case change yourself. A controversial thesis, if you remember Joseph Kobzon.

RUSSIAN SHAKESPEARE

The 200th anniversary of Alexander Ostrovsky, playwright, “Culture” celebrated in such a way that Pushkin never dreamed of. Films, rare performances, author’s programs, “The Glass Bead Game” based on “Thunderstorm” and “Dowry”, “Observer” … On a merchant scale!

Every now and then it was said that this was our Russian Shakespeare. But it seems: well, Ostrovsky, the school curriculum, “a ray of light in the dark kingdom” … Grandpa is outdated.

And I remembered only a few films and one production: “The Snow Maiden” … Until now, there is an indescribable impression that this movie made on a kindergarten boy – me. And magic, and inspiration, a snowy, very beautiful girl jumping over a fire. She melted like smoke, I cried.

“Plum”. The generous Pluchek gave it to the young director Mark Zakharov to stage at the Theater of Satire. The result was a sensation throughout Moscow, a performance by the grace of God, a sensation. So fresh, relevant, but about us, loved ones, from the second half of the twentieth century. After that, Zakharov became a classic.

“The Marriage of Balzaminov”. Konstantin Voinov staged it playfully, laughing at everyone and at himself. Position comedy, yes. And what is Vitsin! And Mordyukov! And Shagalov! And Rolan Bykov! And Lidia Smirnova, the matchmaker, who then had an office romance with Voinov! And Gurchenko, and Zhanna Prokhorenko, Savinova, Nosova, Kryuchkov … A masterpiece.

Finally, “Cruel Romance”. I remember a strip in Literaturka, a review, after which there was no stone left unturned from Eldar Alexandrovich. And how, he raised his hand to the sacred. For Ryazanov it was an experiment, of course, something not obvious. But he modernized the story of a century and a half ago so deftly, subtly, skillfully, with all the love for the original – it turned out “Romance” forever, forever. Well, tell me, without him, would we now know Larisa Guzeeva, the “dowry”, such a beauty then? And Mikhalkov-Paratov – what a gorgeous man! And Eldar himself again slipped his poems to the composer Andrei Petrov. And what! “Love is a deceitful country, and every inhabitant in it is a deceiver…”

But indeed Ostrovsky is more alive than all the living. You just need to read it, put it on for the public, choosing the right angle at the right sharp angle. Look, ponder, shed a tear over fiction. It’s absolutely about us.