I received a personal email from my friend Amor Towles, author of A Gentleman in Moscow, one of the top 25 novels of all-time on the B.S. Scale (Berman’s Selections). I know you may think it was a blast message sent to his thousands of fans but I’ve lived my life surrounded by naysayers and it doesn’t affect me so shut up!
The good news is an eight-hour series version of the novel is being filmed in England by Paramount+. It stars Ewan McGregor as Count Rostov and Ewan’s wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Anna Urbanova, which just happen to be my first choices for the roles. (Coincidence…?) We can look for it sometime next spring. And until that day I shall not sleep a wink…metaphorically speaking.
To anyone who has not yet read the book I ask; “What are you, crazy? Get on it!”