Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night before," followed closely by a home-front operatic duo warbling Roses of Picardy. There is a moving hands-across-the-trenches interlude in which German and British troops put down their guns and exchange presents on the war's first Christmas day.* Victor Spinetti, a marvelously adroit actor in a wonderfully adroit cast, contributes the show's stopper as an English sergeant blasting out inept recruits in hilarious British doubletalk...
...under Washington, President Fonda speaks steadily and carefully in a voice that is intense but curiously flat, as though every word were crushed by a burden of significance too great to bear. And as the voice drones on and on, pleading and reasoning and pleading, the figure of the actor slowly swells and charges with tension and importance, the presence of the man becomes the person of mankind and his voice the voice of the species pleading for its life. The whole of history seems consummated in an instant; Armageddon rages in a telephone booth...
Harvey explained briefly in an hour and five minutes how the ugly actor Jean-Paul Belmondo travels in eleven different vehicles as his adventures bring him from Paris to Rio, to Brasilia, and to the Amazon jungle itself. And Harvey pointed out how each and every trite situation, from ledge-climbing falls onto rooftops to skin-clinging falls in the surf are brilliantly conceived and executed. Of course, he is right...
...actor was Hollywood's greatest contribution to folklore-the Tramp, symbol of the indomitable little guy preposterously pitted against the tyranny of circumstances and the system. The man was something quite different -notoriously vain, snobbish, difficult to know and to work with. He thumbed his nose at the ancient rule that a prominent man may get away with flamboyant politics or flamboyant sex, but never both. The combination turned a large part of the U.S. press and public noisily against Charles Spencer Chaplin, and in a sneering rage, he left the country...
...dinner at Chaplin's secluded mansion in the little Swiss village of Corsier, Chaplin shyly asked his guests if they would like to hear him read aloud some trial passages from a book he was starting to write. "It was a shattering, staggering experience," Reinhardt recalls, "this magnificent actor reading to us about his incredible youth...