Danya Milokhin was not strong enough

But I thought: maybe he is right, Gurevich, and in the given conditions that we are all experiencing now, it is a sin to have fun? Smiling is a sin, especially laughing. And if this difficult, light genre still remains, then what needs to be corrected in this conservatory in order to correspond to historical necessity?

People always want to have fun, at all times. Another question: what do they mean by this concept? In the first half of the 80s, when the leaders left one after another, all lightweight programs were immediately canceled, hockey was canceled, and classical music was played non-stop, diluted with patriotic films about Lenin and the revolution. Also a kind of entertainment, however.

During the Great Patriotic War, when there was still no television, artistic teams went to the front, Shulzhenko, Utyosov, and Bernes sang to the soldiers, played scenes of Zharov with Kryuchkov, and Raikin ruthlessly parodied Hitler.

People cannot be depressed all the time, they need a break, at least for a short time, for an hour, otherwise they will completely go crazy. So let’s see what’s happening now.

“One Hundred to One” is not a shameful program. I never wrote about it, because I didn’t see the second plan, the meaning there. And he said this to Sasha Gurevich: “Is it possible to make “One Hundred to One” an event every time?” No. Well, let it be: there should be light, meaningless one-dimensional formats, so that the viewer does not think about anything at all, but looks – and it becomes easier for him. Only and everything. Gurevich was exchanged for Akopov, one experienced uncle for another, Jewish irony for Armenian, and moved on. Old time, new time, “One Hundred to One” will fit into any, without sharp corners, dramatic turns. It flows like the Volga River, and will continue to flow. Unpretentious.

But to the show “Together Again. Ice Age” claims emerged. Just for one person. Danya Milokhin suddenly turned out to be not strong enough today. Yes, it does not correspond, so to speak, the person did not come out. He smiles somehow wrong, suspiciously, he dyed his hair with streptocide. Does he have an earring in his ear?! And then a terrible word for the current correctness and spirituality loomed: orientation. Don’t go that way, comrade. I don’t care that this guy gives the highest rating; I don’t care that, together with Evgenia Medvedeva, a two-time world champion, for a moment, they won last season and famously started this one … I don’t care. The boy was gently hinted that now he does not fit in, spoils the overall good picture, and Danya jumped off and left.

And here are two more great entertainments for non-peaceful time. “Fiction” on the First, “Show Avatar” on NTV. This whole virtual machine … This painted Mishka, artificial intelligence, singing Vysotsky. These wonderful women, wonderful actresses Dasha Moroz and Sasha Rebenok from Fantastica, forced to squeeze out non-existent emotions, make big eyes, play in surprise, admiration, when you want to roar from what is happening around; this smart Dima Malikov is from the same place, who here should not be smart …

And then I understood everything and calmed down: such a virtual machine fits perfectly into today, like a glove, with a needle. After all, in our time, either there was an event, or it was not. Whether the person said something, or invented it.

The king speaks

Film about Dmitri Shostakovich on “Culture” from 1975. The same year he died.

But the director Belyankin managed. Here is a living Shostakovich sitting at a rehearsal of his last symphony. Sitting with his young wife. Say hello, ask how you are. Discusses intonation with conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Here is listening to what is played. So sensitive, like a child.

And you sit at the screen as if rooted to the spot, tied, afraid to breathe. You catch every word.

You sit and remember his life in the USSR. And “Muddle instead of music”, and the Seventh Symphony in the Leningrad blockade, and lists for execution, for the death of “enemies of the people” who forced him to sign. And drawing the standings with the beloved Zenit of the national football championship already in peacetime …

…The king speaks. Listen everyone. In a few months he will be gone. Until then, listen.

And then there is Galich’s, dedicated to Pasternak, which is applicable to Shostakovich: “How proud we are, you bastards, that he died in his bed!”

The king says…

The same Gusev

Again “Legendary Matches” on the “Star”. This time USSR-Italy, 1988, Euro, semi-final.

There are 3 years left before the collapse of the country. But so far there has been no indication. The Union team is mostly Ukrainians led by Valery Lobanovsky, 7 out of 11. Two Belarusians – Gotsmanov and Aleinikov, two Spartak players from Moscow – Khigiyatullin and Dasaev, who became the best goalkeeper in the world in that very 88th. In the course of the game, Demyanenko from Kiev replaced the injured Bessonov from Kiev. Only then they did not look at nationality at all, they were all ours.

We won 2:0 and reached the final, where, unfortunately, we lost to the Dutch. But European silver medals are great!

The same Dasaev came to Slava Fetisov’s studio, still young and beautiful, although he is 65, Sergey Shavlo and journalist Sasha Lvov. Is a song!

And Viktor Gusev commented. Moreover, he commented here and now, but pretended that he was from there, from the 88th. He looked cool, though.

Gusev is from our very recent past. So recognizable. Yes, I recognize the sweetheart by his gait. And in voice, intonation, expression. He has his own face, which you will not confuse with anyone. Like Sinyavsky, Ozerov, Makharadze, Maslachenko, Mayorov, Pereturin, Utkin …

But once they laughed at Gusev, and a very big boss, the then president of the country, considered him unlucky. I remember the oil painting: the Russian team is playing a qualifying match with someone, now there will be a broadcast on the First, but Gusev is not commenting, he is just sitting in Novosti. In his place, they called others invited from the “Match” …

But who will remove Gusev from TV, he is a monument. They wanted to demolish the monument, like that Dzerzhinsky, but you guys won’t succeed. He is a symbol of the times, and it sounds proud. Times of the 90s, zero. You can’t confuse him with anyone, he is so special. Dear, I would say if I was too sentimental.

Learn while he’s alive.