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Name: Kasia
It's Polish and it's pronounced "Ka-shia": with the 'i' short. It's
the equivalent of English "Kate". Katie Scarlett appears in the Polish translations of the book as
Kasia Scarlett.
Age: 20
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Education: Member of Ithaca High School Class of 2001, Ithaca, NY; now a student
of Warsaw University majoring in International Relations
Hobbys: Anything 1930s
and 1950s related, history, movies, dancing, music, theater, fashion etc
Favorite Movies: "Gone with the Wind"... Also:
"Singin' in the Rain", Marilyn Monroe movies (especially "Bus
Stop"), "Whatever happened to Baby Jane?", "The Godfather", "Rebecca",
"That Hamilton Woman", Fred & Ginger movies etc etc
Favorite Recent Movies: "Chicago" - great music and
choreography, great performances, very nicely done technically
plus a great satire on the 1920s.
"Gosford Park" - a very realistic look at the lives
of 1930's English aristocrats and their servants;
very satirical at times but leaves you with a
bitter sweat feeling for those years. Great acting.
"The Sixth Sense" - very intriguing; great
and surprising ending; wonderfully done so that
even people who don't believe in anything supernatural are hooked.
Favorite Comedies: "Some
Like It Hot", "Father of the Bride" (1950),
"It Happened One Night", "Singin' in the Rain", "Seven
Year Itch",
"Bringin' up Baby"
Favorite Actress and Actor:
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Marilyn Monroe (a great comedienne),
Jack Lemmon
Performances considered most amazing: Vivien Leigh's Blanche DuBois,
Bette Davis's Baby Jane;
restaurant scene from "Waterloo Bridge" when Myra learns about Roy's
death.
Laurence Olivier in whatever he does;
Favorite movie directors
and producers: David O. Selznick, Billy Wilder, George Cukor, John Huston
Favorite book: Gone
with the Wind ; Anna Karenina, To Kill a Mockingbird
Favorite playwrights: Noel
Coward, Arthur Miller...
Favorite plays: Hamlet,
Macbeth, The Crucible, Private Lives, Look after Lulu,
The Visit
Favorite singer: Edith
Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion (A windie too!! :) )
Favorite Composer:
George Gershwin, Andrew Lloyd
Webber, R&H, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Wojciech Kilar
Favorite musicals:
for music: "Phantom of the Opera", "Crazy for You",
"Chicago", "Fiddler on the Roof"; for lyrics: "My Fair Lady", "Anything Goes";
"Sound of Music"
Favorite Song: Gershwin's
"They can't take that away from me"; "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss
auf Liebe eingestellt" by F. Hollaender; "Somewhere over the rainbow";
one of the most beautiful songs
ever written is Elton John's "Candle in the wind"
Favorite dance: tap dance and jazz. I also love charleston and hope it'll
be in again someday. Cakewalk. Fred and Ginger, Gene Kelly, Bob Fosse by
choreography.
Favorite
period in history: the
twenty years between wars 1919-1939; especially the 30s. Also the 1950s in a
different way.
(question that usually follows) Why would anyone like these years?
I know this may be a surprising choice.
I'm aware of
all the hardships of those times:
nations that had hardly gotten over WWI,
the
international order and the League of Nations being doomed from the start, Great
Depression, totalitarianism, widely spread intolerance etc.
But there was also something about those years that never came back after the
war...
Generally I prefer the 30s over the 20s...The roaring 20s were a bit 'too
roaring' for me...flappers, Prohibition, and all that jazz...then the Depression
came and the 30s came and people calmed down a bit. I love the 1930s! Mind you,
it's nostalgia rather than an actual desire to go back in time...But I love
1930s style and fashion! What would you call that? Elegance? :) (I know it
might've been uncomfy but who cares?)
Even though times changed the certain emancipated attitude of the 20s remained
and existed within the established social conventions in the 1930s. But still
some considered that world topsie-turvy ("...in olden days a glimse of
stocking was looked on as something shocking but now God knows...anything goes...".)
Modern times would've been quite a shock, huh? ;) History-wise...this
period is fascinating. Not at al pleasant, but interesting to learn
about. Everything doomed from the start and the question: what went wrong? HOW I CAME TO
LOVE GONE WITH THE WIND
It was during Easter either 1994 or 1995 (I was 10 or 11).
GWTW was going to air on TV and my friend who loved the
movie told me to watch it. As it is often happens, I was
reluctant: at the
beginning I couldn't follow but halfway
through part one I changed my mind...
When it was over I
looked up the info on the film in the TV guide. Back then
I
considered 1930s ancient and I was so suprised when I
read that it was produced
in 1939! I couldn't believe
that such great movies could be made back then...
at
first I couldn't really understand all the fuss
over Clark Gable...but well,
some time later not only did
I understand it, but I became the one fussing :)
I read the book about 2 years later (The length of the
book was putting me off)
and found it equally great.
Favorite Scene: Atlanta Bazaar ("The war makes the most peculiar widows...")
Most Emotional Scene: Since the first time I saw it: When Scarlett walks into
the room where Ellen is lying, and screams.
Most Memorable Scene: "I'll never be hungry again!".
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