Уфф! Давненько мне не приходилось писать официальные письма! Но это не оправдание, так что вот оно - и я приму любую критику в свой адрес. I did my best!
Да, сразу предупреждаю, что перевод Виты я видела, но намеренно не стала читать. Чтобы не облегчать себе задачу ;-) Пойду почитаю, теперь можно.
Жду ваших отзывов.
Dear Tamara!
This letter is from Gerard Butler’s fans from Russia. First of all, let us express our deep admiration of your work for you have created a truly remarkable “officially unofficial” website. Not only is it extremely attractive and stylish, but also abounding and truly absorbing. This website is a sort of leading light pointing us the way across the ocean of various information regarding Gerry.
We are attempting to do something of the kind. It began when a thread on Gerard Butler was started on the best Russian messageboards dedicated to the world’s musicals. Significant amount of fans discussed Gerard and his works on the messaboards, so the necessity of starting an individual website arose. Furthermore, the moment is perfect to launch such a website on the Runet. The fact is that after “The Phantom Of The Opera” was shown in our country (it was released on January 6, 2005) a great number of people became interested in gaining more information on the actor performing the title role in this magnificent screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. Unfortunately, there are many fans who do not speak English and can not use foreign websites to quench their informational thirst.
Therefore we are aimed to create a website for Russian-speaking audience. We would like to place various interviews with Butler translated into Russian by ourselves, reviews on the movies he performed in, audio- and video-files and some supplementary information there. In other words, we aspire to promote the actor and his work in our country.
If you would allow us, there is a favor we would like to ask of you. May we use photos from gb.net? Of course we hold in high respect other people’s work and copyright, so we are certain to post all the necessary links and the information on holders of rights.
We do hope you to answer in the affirmative. We also hope that our acquaintance will give birth to an effective cooperation, for we share one common purpose which is to attract people’s attention to the work of a brilliant actor and a good person Gerard Butler. Gerry deserves it richly!
We wish you all the best!
Sincerely yours,
Your Russian colleagues.
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And that was without a single drop of rum!
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