Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Segal gives his best performance since King Rat, and Steiger offers the audience a cornucopia of characters and caricatures. Some are overplayed while others are slighted, but consistency is beside the point: no other major American actor ^ould have brought off this kind of multifaccted tour de force, which once was the exclusive property of Alec Guinness...
...three soloists in the Carmina were all praise-worthy. Unconditional raves go to James Jones. His voice is an incredibly flexible instrument capable of producing a full, rich, often truly beautiful tone as well as a wide variety of expressive registrations. He is a gifted actor as well and a thoughtful application of both these talents produced the most genuinely exciting performance of the evening...
...scene was a crowd stopper: a man in Pope's raiment was kissing a pretty young girl. But it was only Actor Anthony Quinn, 51, dressed as the fictional Pope Kiril I in the movie version of The Shoes of the Fisherman, bestowing a paternal peck on Daughter Catalina, 25, when she visited the set in Rome. That little respite notwithstanding, Quinn is living his role with fierce dedication-so much so that shooting had to be stopped two weeks because of a huge swelling of Quinn's right eye that he is convinced was psychogenic. "It used...
...obvious fiction, since there is no such thing as a Welsh movie star. Tyson has had only one failure in his 46 pictures (a Hungarian director persuaded him to portray Thomas Jefferson as Richard Nixon might have played him). And he has finally achieved his and every other actor's dream: his contract calls for him to receive exactly 100% of the total gross of his next production...
...Swedish men of winter nights in boarding schools, and English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named Chuck Moses may be reminiscent of Charlton Heston. But the similarity is coincidental; there are no such persons as Alfred Hitchcock and Charlton Heston...