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Was Litvinoff a protean social phenomenon or an opportunistic hustler? His biographer opts for the former. Born David Levy to working-class parents, Litvinoff adopted his half-brother’s family name (Emanuel Litvinoff was the poet who famously locked horns with T. S. Eliot) and embarked on a programme of elaborate self-invention.
19 de abr. de 2013 · A brilliant conversationalist, and fascinated by the music world, he appears to have fallen in with the criminal underworld. David Litvinoff (photo: Philip Levy) By the early 60s Litvinoff was ...
Keiron Pim’s Jumping Jack Flash is a kaleidoscopic ride through the acid-fields of Fities and Sixties London in search of David Litvinoff, a brilliant, desolate, unforgettable yet hard-to-focus gay Jewish grifter. Ironic stereotype and rebel at once, Litvinoff chars the car-crash societies he moves through.
Maxim Maximovich Litvinov (Russian pronunciation: [mɐkˈsʲim mɐkˈsʲiməvʲɪtɕ lʲɪˈtvʲinəf]; born Meir Henoch Wallach-Finkelstein; 17 July 1876 – 31 December 1951) was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet statesman and diplomat who served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs from 1930 to 1939.. Litvinov was an advocate for diplomatic agreements leading to disarmament ...
David Litvinoff was one of the great mythic characters of ‘60s London. Flitting between the worlds of music, art and crime, he exerted a hidden influence that helped create the Krays twins’ legend, connected the Rolling Stones with London’s dark side, shaped the plot of classic film Performance – and saw him immortalised in a portrait by Lucian Freud.
1 de mar. de 2016 · Litvinoff had an instinctive understanding of the subtle interplays and opportunities as the old rules and class structures were questioned and left behind in the quest for fun, freedom and creativity. For all his coldness and mutability, David Litvinoff was clearly able to inspire affection and loyalty among his friends.
