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Aniston and Chekhov - together at last! Sundance slots an Aniston dramedy in the opening-night role.

• Ah, the future of independent film! Gary Gilmore, the festival director, said, ""It's Chekovian in its ability to talk about social issues and people, class and idiosyncratic personalities at the same time."
• Actually, that is an interesting spelling mistake. I'm sure Gilmore meant "Chekhovian," after the Russian dramatist, Anton Chekhov. The word in the article, "Chekovian," would refer to Pavel Chekov, Kirk's navigator on the Enterprise. But the error is something of a Freudian slip, isn't it? I can well imagine that an Aniston movie would be fairly described as "Chekovian."
• By the way, I don't suppose Gilmore delivered that quote in writing, so the misspelling probably comes from the journalist.