Word: alastair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though many a cosmologist was bothered by the bizarre idea of a swiftly expanding universe, no one yet has been able to prove it wrong. But last week in the British journal Nature, Physicist Alastair Ward of Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology suggested a possible way to squelch the big explosion and bring the universe back into a steady state of vast but stable dimensions. Colliding light beams may lose some of their energy, says Ward, as photons (particles of light) carom off other photons. The loss of energy might cause a lengthening of wave length...
GARY: If you want to suspend your reason for a couple of hours and have a whale of a time, take in The Guns of Navarone. If you've heard the music, or even read Alastair MacLean's bestseller, by all means go all the way and plunk down your coins to see Carl Foreman's version. Though unbelievable, it's spectacular, and with shipwrecks, cliff-climbers, saboteurs, informers, captures, escapes, and explosions, (and Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn), how can you lose...
...Based on Alastair MacLean's novel by the same name, the film covers four days, and tells the story of a handful of saboteurs sent to destroy a gun emplacement on the German-held Greek island of Navarone. The story line is direct, and, from the first briefing sessions to the final cataclysmic destruction of the guns, climax builds upon climax, without so much as a pause for breath...
Starts Sunday: G. B. Shaw plus Peter Sellers plus Sophia Loren plus Alastair Sim plusplus Vittorio De Sica ought to equal something grand, zany and sparkling. But THE MILLIONAIRESS is merely routine gag comedy all too much of the time. In point of fact, this is a very dud avocado, indeed. Co-featured is a travesty of William Faulkner, plagiaristically entitled SANCTUARY. Don't expect to recognize the characters if you read the book. Lee Remick whimpers as Temple Drake, and Yves Montand is hopelessly miscast as her down and way-out croole lover. Daily from...
Very few moviegoers will be able to resist Actor Sellers. Not even canny old Alastair Sim, who mugs it up as the heroine's lawyer, can steal a frame from this subtle performer who hardly seems to move his face at all. Comedian Sellers indeed is not a performer, but an actor in the best sense of the word; not a professional show-off who attracts attention to what he is doing, but an artist who reveals what he is. And what Sellers is, solely and invariably, is the character he is portraying. In playing Shaw's exotic...