V 2019 godu Aleksandr Shirvindt vsenarodno lyubimyy akter, rezhisser i televedushchiy otmetil yubiley. «Kogda mne stuknulo 85, ya podumal, chto eto vpolne ser'eznaya cifra, chtoby sebya sformulirovat'», tak on pishet v predislovii k memuaram «Operezhaya nekrolog».
Razdelennaya na dve chasti eto kniga vospominaniy: s rannego detstva i do nashih dney o sem'e i o blizkih, o sluzhbe v teatre, o s"emkah v kino. I, konechno, o lyubimyh druz'yah. Aleksandr Shirvindt s neprevzoydennym chuvstvom yumora delitsya svoimi myslyami i s nezhnost'yu i teplotoy vspominaet Evgeniya Evtushenko i El'dara Ryazanova, Arkadiya Arkanova i Bulata Okudzhavu, Andreya Mironova i Aleksandra Abdulova, Valentina Gafta, Olega Tabakova, Marka Zaharova, Evgeniya Primakova i mnogih drugih.
«Ran'she ya, brosayas' v grafomaniyu, schital: ne nado zamahivat'sya na monumental'nye memuary so skromneyshimi razdelami "Ya o sebe" i "Oni obo mne, a ya o nih". Teper' podumal: a pochemu by i net? Pust' eshche odna knizhonka ruhnet v zalezhi literaturnyh zapasnikov. "Uvekovechit'" koryavoe i protivnoe slovo, hot' i tochnoe po smyslu. Vsekh, kto mne dorog i kogo ya ne zabyvayu, uvekovechit' nevozmozhno, a hochetsya. I ya pridumal dlya sebya princip vybora personazhey moey sud'by. Ya podoshel k knizhnym polkam i pod udivlennye vzglyady domashnih vylozhil na pol vsyu literaturu, krome Shekspira, Gogolya, Bomarshe i drugih avtorov, vstrechi s kotorymi ne zapomnilis'. V itoge otobral tol'ko knizhki s darstvennymi avtografami druzey. Zahotelos' skazat' im v otvet chto-to ochen' nezhnoe, chestnoe i ostroumnoe, no eto veshchi nesovmestnye, poetomu prihoditsya byt' iskrennim».
Knigu chitaet Mihail Aleksandrovich Shirvindt.
