A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles tells the story of a Russian aristocrat living under house arrest in a luxury hotel for 30 years.
When people were in the lobby, he could determine what room numbers they occupied in the hotel, it could identify people according to the clothes they wore, the color of their hair-in spite of the fact that dogs are thought to be color-blind-their profession, and, in the case of the ...
FIFTH ASSIGNMENT:write your own hook line (logline) with conflict and core wound following the format above. Though you may not have one now, keep in mind this is a great developmental tool. In other words, you best begin focusing on this if you're serious about commercial...
Other stories tell of drinking hallucinogenic kava in Vanuatu; lingering on a beach with a beautiful Maldivian girl in a pleasurable pursuit that the locals call "night fishing"; cooking piroshki with a Moscow émigré in a tiny Manhattan apartment while drug dealers shoot each other in the lobb...
Somewhere deep in the Kremlin is supposedly a surveillance video made in 2013 of Trump in Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel, watching two prostitutes urinate on a bed the Obamas once slept in.No one, not even Steele’s alleged informants, has actually seen the tape. It exists in a land of ...
For example, in 2014, Vice President Biden attended a dinner for Hunter Biden with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, whose husband was the former mayor of Moscow. Following the dinner, Baturina wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, a front company created by Hunter Biden. Then, months...
In the early days, more than six month ago now, the goal was whispered to be the fall of Putin, regime change with possibly even a new pro-western leader in Moscow, another “end of history” moment since the west squandered the first one trying to make Russia into a capitalist ...
On the other hand, Trump, speaking to reporters in New York City, didn’t go into detail about what he, if reelected, would seek in any agreement but said that talks are necessary because of the threat posed by Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. “We have to make a deal, because ...
The story stated “the knee was hit in Moscow, the leg kicked in New York.” Need it even clearer? Comey cleared Clinton of legal trouble over her emails. The last barrier to nomination was breached. Then Wikileaks disclosures threatened to derail the convention. A distraction was needed. ...