Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears Page #5

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They want to know why we kept

silent for so long.

I wonder what they would have

done in our place.

We would have spoken up.

Seryozha, you haven't touched

your wine.

- I'm not allowed.

- Poor health?

No. The coach won't allow me to.

Cause I'm in training.

You are Gourin, aren't you?

Yes, Gourin.

I thought you looked familiar.

I used to broadcast the games

you played.

We should be honored to be

at the same table as Gourin.

Don't be so modest. I read what

the Swedish press wrote about you.

- You play for Moscow now?

- That's right.

I think we should all drink a toast

to the great hockey player Gourin.

Just one glass toasting yourself.

No. Thank you for your kind words,

but really I'm in training,

and I don't like the stuff anyway.

- Have you been long at the TV?

- Two years now.

- It must be very interesting!

- Yes, very.

Someday television

will change our lives.

We'll never go to the movies,

and theatre and literature will die.

We'll only be interested in

television.

Don't you think you're getting

carried away?

Theatre, I agree, isn't going to last

long, but really, movies, books...

Just wait twenty years and you'll

see.

Well, in twenty years everything

will be completely changed.

It isn't all that much, twenty years.

In twenty years I'll be old.

Believe me, at forty you'll think

that your life just begins.

At forty? You're joking!

If God really created us all,

he should be generous

and give us at least a thimbleful

of hope.

Where did you graduate from?

We don't have any special school

for television yet.

Seryozha, you're like a bear.

Well, what do you think of Sweden?

We just looked out a bus window.

We're still at the beginning of TV,

but it already represents the future.

- Have you been to a studio?

- No, I've never been there.

- Want to visit?

- Oh yes, can I?

I can arrange it.

Washington says we're a bust,

Treats us just like old dust.

But in space we're the first.

With green envy they can burst.

An old house on the block

Was dynamited at one o'clock.

And instead the new one fell,

The old one is holding well.

An old man in a restaurant

Ate a very, very lot.

Now his rent is paid well for,

It's a cemetery plot.

Oh look! It's Katerina!

That's her all right!

She really looks pretty, doesn't she?

It's funny, but for sisters you're

not much alike.

- You mean I'm not pretty?

- It's not that...

You're so different.

A loving son to his dear dad

Gave a lottery ticket.

Father won a car, no buts,

And the son is going nuts.

Don't do that again,

and I mean it, Seryozha.

Why not?

You're famous, and girls

just throw themselves at you.

- I'm not that kind of girl.

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