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Research by Kondrat ' eva, Reznikov and colleagues at Kazan University had shown how meteor storms could be accurately predicted but for some years the worldwide meteor community remained largely unaware of these results.
In the 1550s, after the Tsardom of Russia had defeated the Khanate of Kazan and proceeded to gradually annex the lands of the Bashkirs, the Russians finally reached the southern part of the mountain chain.
Her irreverent and often bawdy sense of humour allowed her to establish a rapport with her co-star Marlon Brando ; but she had difficulty with director Elia Kazan, who did not hold her in high regard as an actress.
Kazan had considered whether that kind of scene might be too much for American audiences:
Kazan had requested that Zero Mostel also act in the film, despite Mostel being " blacklisted " as a result of HUAC testimony a few years earlier.
Saint recalls that Kazan selected her for the role after he had her do an improvisational skit with Brando playing the other character.
She had no idea that he was looking to fill any particular film part, however, but remembers that Kazan set up the scenario with Brando which brought out surprising emotions:
Author Douglas Rathgeb describes the difficulties Kazan had in turning Dean into a new star, noting how Dean was a controversial figure at Warner Bros. from the time he arrived.
Kazan had invited director Nicholas Ray to a private showing, with Dean, as Ray was looking for someone to play the lead in Rebel Without a Cause.
" Beatty, years later, during a Kennedy Center tribute to Kazan, stated to the audience that Kazan " had given him the most important break in his career.
Actor Gary Lockwood, who also acted in the film, felt that " Kazan and Natalie were a terrific marriage, because you had this beautiful girl, and you had somebody that could get things out of her.
In one important and highly emotional scene, for example, Kazan had to give Griffith fair warning: " I may have to use extraordinary means to make you do this.
Marlon Brando, in his autobiography, goes into detail about the influence Kazan had on his acting:
Kazan initially refused to provide names, but eventually named eight former Group Theater members who he said had been Communists: Clifford Odets, J. Edward Bromberg, Lewis Leverett, Morris Carnovsky, Phoebe Brand, Tony Kraber, Ted Wellman, and Paula Miller, who later married Lee Strasberg.
In his memoirs, Kazan writes that his testimony meant that " the big shot had become the outsider.
At the time of his death, Williams had been working on a final play, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, which attempted to reconcile certain forces and facts of his own life, a theme which ran throughout his work, as Elia Kazan had said.
However, the long production of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf had forced her to turn down several significant roles in international productions including The Double Life of Véronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Night and Day by Chantal Akerman and Beyond the Aegean an aborted project with Elia Kazan.

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Publishers Weekly wrote " The Group Theatre ... ith its self-defined mission to reconnect theater to the world of ideas and actions, staged plays that confronted social and moral issues ... ith members Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Stella and Luther Adler, Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan and an ill-assorted band of idealistic actors living hand to mouth are seen welded in a collective of creativity that was also a tangle of jealousies, love affairs and explosive feuds.
Following the hearing he resumed his career and worked with Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, two other HUAC " friendly witnesses ", on the 1954 film On the Waterfront, which is widely seen as an allegory and apologia for testifying.
The Lesser Coat of Arms ( Малый государственный герб Российской Империи ) depicts the imperial double-headed eagle, as used in the coat of arms, with the addition of the collar of the Order of Saint Andrew around the escutcheon of St. George, and the Arms of Astrakhan, Siberia, Georgia, Finland, Kiev-Vladimir-Novgorod, Taurica, Poland and Kazan on the wings ( seen clockwise ).
Zilant could be seen at the decorative elements all over Kazan.

Kazan and Dean
Kazan introduced a new generation of unknown young actors to the movie audiences, including Marlon Brando and James Dean.
As director, Kazan again used another unknown actor, James Dean.
Kazan, Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, and James Dean ( 1955 )
Kazan goes on to describe how he got to understand James Dean, as an example:
Kazan became known as an " actor's director " because he was able to elicit some of the best performances in the careers of many of his stars, such as Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, James Dean, Julie Harris, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach and Natalie Wood.
Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader praised the adaptation by Kazan and the " down-to-earth " performances of James Dean and Richard Davalos.
During breaks, Dean and Adams entertained cast and crew with impersonations of Marlon Brando and Elia Kazan ( who had directed Dean in East of Eden ).
From his base in New York, he trained several generations of theatre and film's most illustrious talents, including Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and director Elia Kazan.
Former student Elia Kazan directed James Dean in East of Eden ( 1955 ), for which Kazan and Dean were nominated for Academy Awards.
Kazan appeared in numerous supper clubs across the country, and she guested on Dean Martin ’ s variety series 26 times.
In 1947, together with former Group Theatre members Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis, she founded The Actor's Studio, which trained Marlon Brando, James Dean, Jerome Robbins, Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Bea Arthur, and many more.

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Emperor Kazan, who was tricked into abdicating, on his way to the temple where he will become a Buddhist monk – woodblock prin by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka ( 1839 – 1892 ).
The work of David J. Asher, Armagh Observatory and Robert H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory and independently by Esko Lyytinen in 1999, following on from the Kazan research, is considered by most meteor experts as the breakthrough in modern analysis of meteor storms.
* Emperor Kazan succeeds Emperor En ' yū on the throne of Japan.
* Emperor Ichijō succeeds Emperor Kazan on the throne of Japan.
In Kazan's autobiography, Kazan writes of the " lasting impact on him of the Group ," noting in particular, Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman as " father figures ", along with his close friendship with playwright Clifford Odets.
Among the other Broadway plays he directed were " Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ", " Sweet Bird of Youth ", " The Dark at the Top of the Stairs " and " Tea and Sympathy ", This led some, such as theater critic Eric Bentley, to write that " the work of Elia Kazan means more to the American theater than that of any current writer.
British film critic Ian Freer notes that despite Kazan naming Communist party members to the House Committee on Un-American Activities two years earlier, " the film is ambivalent about the act of informing.
Many mutual " friends who turned on Kazan also refused to speak to Malden.
Beatty himself recalled the episode: " In some patricidal attempt to stand up to the great Kazan, I arrogantly and stupidly challenged him on it.
" Kazan also describes how and why he gets to know his actors on a personal level:
Film historian Joanna E. Rapf notes that among the methods Kazan used in his work with actors, was his initial focus on " reality ", although his style was not defined as " naturalistic.
Kazan adds that De Niro " is one of a select number of actors I've directed who work hard at their trade, and the only one who asked to rehearse on Sundays.
Kazan was the best actors ' director by far of any I've worked for ... the only one who ever really stimulated me, got into a part with me and virtually acted it with me ... he chose good actors, encouraged them to improvise, and then improvised on the improvisation ...
Kazan remained controversial in some circles until his death for testimony he gave before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) in 1952, a period that many, such as journalist Michael Mills, feel was " the most controversial period in Hollywood history.
In April 1952, the Committee called on Kazan, under oath, to identify Communists from that period 16 years earlier.
During his career, Kazan won both Tony and Oscar Awards for excellence on stage and screen.
There is an ethnic nationalist movement among Kazan Tatars which stresses descent from the Bulgars and is known as Bulgarism-there have been graffiti on the walls in the streets of Kazan with phrases such as " Bulgaria is alive ".
The Irkutsk Regional museum with stamped last names of famous researches of Siberia on its walls ( 1883 ), the building of the first public community, city theater ( 1897 ), Kazan ' cathedral, made in new Byzantine style ( 1893 ), and the Roman Catholic cathedral ( 1895 ) completed an architectural style of the city.

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