Valery Leontiev able to give interviews - any question short, innovative, witty, honest answers, only those that allow journalists to the next shiny material. He plays the interview as a musical line and is a thing in itself, a closed shell, the inside of the pearl ... Or can be saved - more, by the way, is the probability - to be empty. - Perhaps like Dorian Gray, sold his soul? - The question will come unexpectedly, like a sudden. He was silent. - Well, at least for everything! - Passionate, I say. - I'm afraid - he finally speaks. - Sell? - Reply. While I wonder for years. - Are you afraid to hear and to come? - I'm afraid to know itself. Pause again and drag occurs ... However, the devil, as it should, has appeared at the end. Beginning it was divine. - All that I have said before - not true! - We are at the entrance of his favorite restaurants - a small harbor pub where I drink vodka carelessly, and he - intelligent - red wine, spicy and breathe the fresh sea air. - What about you? - I question. - Really? - He abruptly whole body throws back his head so that his mane just with a touch of red crumbling shoulders. With a short laugh. - Well, that's heaven. I look after - the sky is black, poor and empty, with him that night, for some reason, the stars faded. Sky abroad. - Well, no, actually - I have to pull pathetic, and now we were both laughing at the latest accident puns. - Where are you in a hurry? - Lazy irony in his voice, light mockery in the eyes - we have so many days to be together ... - I want now! - Okay, I'll tell you ... tomorrow. I also, "snail on the side" - I thought, and flew to Israel. On his tour. So he said, "Tomorrow." When? "Well, how shall rise ..." This topic is familiar to me, I know for sure - will sleep until noon. So in the morning, takes me for a 100 miles - enjoy the Dead Sea. And now, always with a view of a speedometer go wild, then at the clock, I think hopeless: it is useful to get to the star of this magnitude in nedosohshem swimsuit with salted nenamazannoy through hair and face? Or is it inappropriate? Female takes over, and I'm too late, too late, too late ... - Oh, was! Hello! - Ironically, Leontiev, when I finally appear in the doorway. - I thought - have stolen all the terrorists. - Do not wait - but it's impossible to resist. He has a blank check, and it is drawn from the heart. - I think, must now try to negotiate and pay ransom. It was found. Thank you Lord! I have nothing to cover, is that the Dead Sea. - Oh come on, what could be - and he bowed ironically, makes a grand gesture. - Wines you want? - Only if for the company. - No, I can not, I'm working. I try to take the initiative: - Today Sabbath, decent people do not work ... Sin, by the way! - Well, for me this is not true, I am a human orthodox. And from the perspective of the locals - certainly a sin. Although they share probably will only come to hear me ... - Yesterday you gave the first concert of the tour in Jerusalem, and not to go to the Western Wall. So, do not ask for something not to be thankful and have nothing to confess before God? - Why, yes. Simply no more time ... Live broadcast 6 hours, and then - once the page. So ... not to cry. For me, our ballet called, they went. By the way, have a good day. Today there are people throwing stones. - They have no fear of speaking such a hot spot? - I have my otboyalsya. And then, in this country, heroism - to live, and not to come to sing ... It - it is not mentioned, so warm. I waited patiently, when he is lured into a conversation, and most importantly - try to feel it, to capture the mood. Leontiev simply move in space, suddenly realizes that he has no cigarettes, they found on the dressing table, get over in the chair and looked at me with the same irony: they say, well, let's here your homework. - One of Murphy's Law states that all the best in life are either illegal, or immoral, or leads to obesity. - Ha! The first time I hear ... - Threaten not last. So your most beautiful thing in life - illegal or immoral? Since I do not like him this question, I feel for each of its impending nervous break. - And the law - he says - and quite moral - and in her voice, despite the cool condescension, apparently slipped a note of threat. - But it is the law - I insist - he knows no exceptions. Storm blew us away. - So, I'm out of the law - Jokes Leontiev. - Time is running out and I realize that after all the best that I have is - the scene. And that's completely legal, moral and ethical. Of course, to the extent where I am morality. - And you mentally? - Yes, - he says quietly. - Well, I will not say that I reached extraordinary heights of morality. But at least I think I'm a decent person, honest. I observe their internal command, honor your moral code. I think I'm more good people than bad. - Among the fans more men or women? - Women - he says it with a hint of a little tenderness. - Women are known, in any stupid charm and terror, what fools fall. Her - what? - I do not know, I do not know ... I'm not going to spend in the hall of the IQ tests. Not deceive - gray and impenetrable, that's for sure. Just came to me, not stupid. No, they were smart. A few hours later he would be on stage at the largest concert hall, the oppressed, so that's not something that an apple - no place for cigarette butts with flowers, gifts, chocolates, soft toys ... Hundreds of women and hands drop littered the edges of his clothes are torn in different directions - each to him. - My God, they are so attracted to him - someone joked - when touch in the hope and healing. An hour later, when distributing the Leontief after endless encore countless autographs and finally comes, it will sweep away, press firmly against the wall and no one drowned under a controlled amount of fans. - Shaw they wanted by Valeri? - Puzzled asks me with an indescribable accent local security officer. We will see the same curiosity the head disappears beneath overhanging Leontief cameras and jump up and down a woman's head. And I will tell him in pure Hebrew - Sex! The advantage of this word in all languages sound the same. And he doubled up with laughter, crying out - Sho they think they are, these shlemazl He still can not do everything - (Yiddish - Ed "fool klutz.".)! You do not think - I tell him condescendingly basis of female psychology. - This is a basic instinct. The next morning, I now recall with irony Leontiev: - As you yesterday your "oh, how clever" went back on the rocks, then. I thought a little more, her second Kotel! - Yes, crushed - he recognizes and left looking at the bruises on each hand. - What are you talking so quietly? - I'm shocked. - I remember when your fans in Peter Fell Fox's smash to pieces, you were not so smug! - Of course, furious, it was a pity - he recalls - but here ... - And after a while - it's different. Life here is not easy. And anxiety, as in Moscow, and the hard work ... - It's true - I give up - many are returning to Russia. He suddenly laughs - I'm a fan of - getting on in years, but a fierce! He moved to Israel. Found a young girl, married, had a son, whom they have as Valerie and began to try to name the baby had Leontiev. - What? - Wonder I forget the rules of the Russian language - it was too suspicious name, some non-Jewish ... - Yes, - he grins. - Well, they're back! - A name-it has? - That's what I do not know. Here in Israel, Leontiev surprisingly relaxed. Journalists always closed, he speaks - no, not with joy (this related to his people, never does), but entirely up to you. - So, back to the object of worship. Here you have to pass for the 56th A new stage of creativity? - Some time ago I met Pavel Globa, after the concert, we sat and talked, and then he said: "In 55 years you will find a new look" - So what? - Nothing. Already the 56th Honor to be where? - Know anecdote: "pray Steel arms:" Almighty God, let me win a million ... "- Yes, I know:" Do you ever buy a lottery ticket ... "No, I have something to grab tickets! So I telephoned Vladimir Bortko, when he" began The Master and Margarita "... But I did not come of age, Ha Nozri in the novel, a young man True, offered another Bortko foil covered specifically for me So it may be still -.. Who would play you like other than Yeshua - I said in an interview, love to play Dorian Gray Here, the publication "Leontiev removed as the most important gay ever. "But it is not homosexuality or heterosexuality This is -. the next version of".. Faust ", a man who sells his soul to the devil Only Dorian sells his soul, his portrait in this sense, it ends, time runs straight -. Maybe after the show ... - I'm neglecting bait -. Following the concert will go directly to the restaurant - he says - I do not even celebrated a birthday, to mark So today, festive night ... ". Full Moon Night - festive night, and I had dinner at the nearby businesses approximate and Servant "- appears immediately in my mind In fact, why not Voland is here for you and your skin, tan burnt, and always open gate.? . And the pain in his knee, which he complained casual today - say, stuck - no need to invent. Is that Woland was too sensual. Talk, play, relax - and tempo emotional tornado swept away everything in its path. Party dedicated to the fact of birth, becomes a feast for the guests. Leontiev deliberately tried to minimize the praise in the address, turned people close to him, sitting around. Steadily, say they are talented, intelligent, wonderful and how expensive it is all of them. The recipients are confused and melt. The organizers of the tour - two Marika, two siblings, two picturesque snap Jew, was preparing a surprise. If a gift is born and begins to overflow precious metals, I think that this is -. A copy of the state, which is kept in the Diamond Fund It turns out - precious vessel of the holy land of Israel. The next day I was asked to wait a few minutes - "Now Valery Yakovlevich dogrimiruetsya ..." "I know, I know, taboo" - I wave my hand and get a job waiting. Moments later, someone close to Leont'ev in the hall, accidentally left the door ajar. And I suddenly see how the mirror artists concentrated, rapid, precise brush strokes almost unrecognizable changing its face. I watched that. A bit weird sight for several long seconds, then quietly closed the door In a few minutes in front of me ready to mock and indulge in a romantic sentimentality young, enthusiastic people. - You never talk about my childhood. Not like to remember? - Yeah, just do not remember - he said sincerely. - What exactly? - I think not. - Yes, it's amazing: some fragments of fragments. Here's a piece is pulled out a piece of him, do not fit in, like a broken record ... This is probably due to the fact that I was dragged from place to place as a child. Because of his father's profession (a veterinarian father Leontief breeders -. Ed.) More than six months, we have not delayed. - Well, at least the episodes ... - I remember, the game was a strange one - in northern Komi. Parents took the poles to push for deer, it polished. Has a sharp peak and reach of children And so it was necessary to take this tip is that it fits into the snow, but not buried, and came through. Who then, is the winner. Well, and then jump off the roof. They sit on the third floor, fear ... all disheveled, like crows on the edge of the roof, looking at each other - well, who? Then you try, the other loses his balance and down ... what else? Drowning here. This I was about five, and I was happy at the bottom of the stone. I still remember: Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles ... Fear of water left -? - No. I was seventeen years old in Anapa with harpoons to hunt crabs. There was nothing, and my production has an important addition to the table. And yet - in construction work. Now when I come to Anapa on tour, I remember, "Oh, I am here for moving the stones" - Do you have step-sisters ... - In the living room, they are gone - he corrects me. - There was no friction in the family? - And we have not lived together for ever - big age difference ... So let's see, they can: my childhood - do not touch the fertile environment for the withdrawal memories. While the object of interest to me in the morning we were sleeping, sunning along with his musicians and dancers on the beach to see ruins, just to chat. I suppose a rule, nothing ask about Leontiev - I know is showing interest in a carefree, they are closed, and I know nothing. And they begin to talk about it. I quickly noticed that the distance between the star and the ambience is excellent. Among themselves, they call him "Ya" - even those who work with him for twenty years. I know what it is to appreciate people who may not refuse to help at a difficult time, not that it does not scream - not to raise voice, but his orders were carried out without question. He can borrow money. He does not tolerate intrigue and can not bear it, because someone negligence when. His time for nothing I gradually realized - for the romantic way that creates a quarter-century and played brilliantly Leontiev is the iron will of iron man. Once in an open conversation, I ask: - What is it? What does it matter? - Lonely - tell me. - Closed, closed, too. Sit all day in the room, reading a book. Sometimes you have to feel sorry for him! - And adds a touch of bitterness: - It used to be different. Previously, he was quite at us! Wake up at night after the show, and we're sitting somewhere. He is looking for us, "Guys, I'm with you!" - Now what? - Now? Very rarely, when the train is running away from his security - "Give at least drink vodka" - What's changed so much? - Time. Stratification of these, which occurred in the community. And then, tired of course, that an excessive load! And not at rest. Once a year ... for three days to hit the road in Miami, and all - To be continued after a pause: Well, what he did is Lucy! (Isakovich wife Ludmila Leontiev, a permanent resident of the United States -. Ed.) This is probably very important to him - to know that someone, somewhere, at least wait for you. - How did they live? - In the early years of the poor. If only she did not left! The last day of the interview I did not expect - I think that was to say, but he said, was: "Enough already, drank krovushki!" "Come on now, so vlegkuyu about this and that." About this and we'll talk. He says that at one time interest in photography, then he gave up. - And where are my pictures? - I asked to publish already visualization. - Yes, somewhere in the chest! - He waved his hand. - Everything you need in chests - hate the interview that you do not like to give, to be photographed your site is closed ... - I'm crazy - Yes, I do not need anything - he said indifferently. - What do you need? - Well, we say, look at the sky. You know, people tend to stop doing it in seven years, and for good reason. - Wait for Alien plate? - Never seen - regret in his voice. - But when he saw ran away, but ufologists warn that in any case. But it is so interested in everything, which is beyond our understanding! But I saw a kid Brownie - a vivid memory! At the time I was four years old. I remember New Year's Eve, the parents dressed up Christmas tree. Hanging balls, candy, - he says enthusiastically. - I woke up in the night, I felt like a tree: it's so mysterious. Stood up, walked softly and reach for sweets - rip. And under the tree is a small, angry, full of wool hit me on the arm! - After a pause, he begins to laugh. - Well, I certainly do not uproarious voice woke his parents, I'm running into tears! Climbed the house, they found nothing! I calmed down, took up the bed ... - Is there anything to happen to you in the mystical life? - Wake me once fell continuously with chest. I sit somewhere in the kitchen, no one in the house, and all of a sudden - bam! Then stopped. And I never I have to get through the first time, with the second not - not all the time there! We will continue to talk about mysticism, agree that there is something unknown. - Time Finals - he said -. Time ... And after the concert again in the tavern. To wet the last applause Leontiev enter as a mouse. - What is a party - I doubt it - it's like a parrot joke, crash now with perches for you! - Do not crash! - Optimistic assured me - he did not want to stand up ... And in fact - only a quarter of an hour later, Leontiev again led the holiday table: says witty toast, says no, rather skillfully plays stories from his past, and so that the laughter mounted role. And then he drank a glass of red wine and dancing enthusiastically with his ballet "AVBA», «BoneyM» -. Right now naprygaetsya and tomorrow razbolitsya leg - very quiet, says someone from the neighborhood -. Can be Accessed - When did you see him last seen such relaxed - Officials there -. Stop it, you see, a good man ... - What a rarity these parties - let me intrude on the conversation -. Oh well, maybe once or twice a year, in the rule here in Israel, and only a very small circle, there is never ... - breaks records -. ... There are no journalists - with a smile that I quit. They look at me as if I just went to the mosque in sneakers, but also carefully wiped her foot right in the minaret. - There is not even a little-known people - tell me, in a voice not sound clearly offended - offended jealousy. - Well, - just shrug - the journalists their gods, cynical and cruel, but I will not spoil the fun innocent apostle of the Eucharist. The party is delayed until late in the night, but each song comes to an end, and at the crossroads of the city at dawn with the tour and this spring ball ends full moon. We are ... in the street in a black, low-air foreign country from which the stars fade. - Have you seen today as one side of the sky, the sun was setting, and the other - the moon rise? Such a beauty! I have as much teeth itch! - So you're a vampire? - I ahayu. - How nice to meet his brother's blood! We both laugh. - So are you still willing to sell his soul to the devil? - Wait for what I am about to say, "Oh No How can you!" - And he looked back at me with an endless, quite undisguised irony. - But I will not tell! Is willing to sell - do not say. Not finished. But I would try, I would have to trade, I would have discussed it with him. If it were possible to agree not to eternity, and on time. - And for what? Ready for what? - "Why" - with a slight smile, he imitates. - It is clear why. To stay healthy, young, always be in demand. What else is there? But try it, do not try it immediately. - He falls silent again. - When he went for it ... - Have you ever happy? - I asked quietly. His face is instantly transformed: it's getting harder, as if with him once kidnapped all the emotions. - No. Four days ago he made a great gesheft florists - surrounding shops were gutted on the latest chamomile and interspersed with buds at his feet were broken women's hearts. - You are not happy? - I can not believe my ears. - No. - Why not? Back in his eyes and in his voice at the same time flashing light mockery. - I'll tell you ... tomorrow. - But no tomorrow - I protest - in fact, it was over. - Where are you in a hurry? - Income draw. - A lifetime ago, so you can still meet again ... - I want now! - No, tomorrow ... In the end we went to Moscow together. PS ... At the level he was comfortable to shamelessly and strangely serene dryhnet, wavy and I'm trying to connect to a shred of impressions. What is it? It turns out - an affordable, simple, sincere, gentle, and all that - an illusion. Every day, he is very different from a clean slate. Independently and completely alone. And I decide: whether to wake up a man who was for four sold-out live concert, so it with a towel spread out like a boxer in the ring, as he lit a festive night as Woland "for a narrow circle of close and servant", was ask agonizing shakedown at the Israeli airport and: "Why did you not enough to be happy?" "Atmosphere"
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