伍咏薇
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:John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
戴兵
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:米哈伊尔·阿法纳西耶维奇·布尔加科夫1891年生于基辅,1940年逝世于莫斯科。世界文坛称他是一位思想深邃、以大无畏精神向一切邪恶挑战的文学大师。其代表作《狗心》、《白卫军》、《大师和玛格丽特》等曾被苏联当局查禁没收,或“默杀”。作家死后恢复名誉、苏联文坛两度掀起“布尔加科夫热”。现在他的作品进入现代经典之列,被誉为20世纪最伟大的文学珍品之一。《狗心》作于一九二五年初,在文学圈子里获得一致好评,人们发现它确实尖锐地抨击了现实,但它抨击的是现实中的粗野、愚昧和荒廖。小说写一条狗因为做了人的脑垂体移植手术,突然成了有人外表的流氓,致使流氓习气随着脑垂体分泌的激素,渗入了取名沙里科夫的实验室怪物的每个细胞。沙里科夫的可怕不公在于他身上那些流氓无产者的劣性,并且在于他对社会主义的庸俗化.表面上看来,《狗心》很像一个科幻故事,但是实际上却有着反乌托邦小说的关于哲理和社会的深邃思考。国际知名的医生菲利普·普列奥布拉任斯基教授,为了进行改善人种的优生学试验,把一个刚刚死去的行窃的酒鬼的脑垂体和睾丸移到一只叫沙里克的狗身上。沙里克竟变成了“还处于最低发展阶段的”人——沙里科夫。这个能讲人言、衣食如人的衣冠禽兽,一天天显示出是一个怀着“一颗最为卑鄙龌龊的心”的败类:酗酒、偷窃、说谎、告密、无耻下流,直至栽脏陷害、用手枪威胁要强占教授的住宅。更有意味的是,这个狗“出身”的沙里科夫竟然被政府赏识而任命为莫斯科公共卫生局清除流窜动物科科长。他穿上了皮夹克(这是当时文学作品里革命者的形象模式),出入有专车——尽管是卡车。幸而两位“造物主”普列奥布拉任斯基教授和博尔缅塔尔大夫及时用手术把沙里科夫还原为沙里克,才没酿成惨祸。在这篇小说里,布尔加科夫力究天人之际,思考着人与自然、人与社会的关系、人的能力限度以及人对于整个自然界的责任。实际上,布尔加科夫继续阐释着一个重大的主题:人不应该僭越,不应该觊觎全能的上帝的位置。这个上帝便是自然、社会的客观法则。试图超越社会、自然的进程,把科学变为破坏客观规律的迷信,狂热蛮干地“创造历史”,是不能不受到惩罚的。正如小说《不祥之蛋》中,佩尔西科夫教授虽然掌握了科学,却缺乏对人类社会的责任感,最后死于疯狂的群众的乱拳之下;而给人类社会带来可怖的厄运的洛克,急功近利而智力低下到根本谈不上什么责任感问题,却“带着官家的公文”,则是更为可怕的。而在《狗心》中,国际首屈一指的名医菲利普·普列奥布拉任斯基教授空前绝后的完美手术只能创造出险些置其于死地的社会败类。普列奥布拉任斯基教授经受了自作自受的“科学实验”之后,终于觉悟道:“看吧,如果一个研究者不是摸着大自然的脉搏,与之共进,而是想加速问题的解决,揭开那神秘的帷幕,那么,就给你个沙里科夫尝尝,还让你吃不了兜着走。”看来,人要充当上帝——造物主的角色,结果只能是对上帝的讽刺性模拟。干扰世界的客观进程最终只能落得搬起石头砸自己的脚的下场。