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Greta Garbo as Pope Innocent III? Italian Movie Director Franco Zeffirelli considered her, thought Charlie Chaplin might also be suitable, ended up by picking Laurence Olivier, who was unavailable. "Olivier couldn't do it, so they asked me," said his modest replacement, Actor Alec Guinness, who was in Italy filming a confrontation scene between Pope Innocent and St. Francis of Assisi for Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Zeffirelli's cinematic treatment of the saint's life. "Religion is still an important factor for the young," mused Sir Alec, a Catholic himself. "Only difference is that in the past...
...asked Groucho: "Do you have the feeling Truman is dominating this conversation?" The rebuke silenced Groucho for only five seconds. Even when he is off the air, Cavett is on. To a waitress who brings him a well-prepared fish dish, he says: "My compliments to the ocean." Spotting Alec Guinness' name on a marquee, he instantly visualizes an apt anagram: GENUINE CLASS...
...with Velásquez's portrait of his mulatto assistant, Juan de Pareja, which brought $5,544,000 at Christie's last November-the highest price ever paid for a work of art at public auction. The winning bid belonged to Wildenstein & Co., and young Alec Wildenstein explained at the time, with a straight face, that the family gallery had bought it because his great-grandfather had been in love with it and left instructions to snap it up if it ever came on the market. But last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced proudly that...
Harvard's lineup will be substantially the same as the one that saw the bulk of the action in Scotland and England. Forwards will be hooker Lynn Coe, props Lee Sheehy and Spencer Dreischarf, second row Eric Henrikson and Bill Framen, lock Alec Wiggin and wing forwards John Stranger and Paul Reppun...
...exacted precise performances, with Peter O 'Toole's Lawrence-both sensitive and hateful, frolicsome and brutal-one of the most convincing portrayals of a man of eccentric genius in all film. Anthony Quinn and (surprisingly) Omar Sharif effectively project the vigor and broad coloration of their tribal chieftains; only Alec Guinness as Feisal and Arthur Kennedy as a caricatured Lowell Thomas struggle with roles which are too obviously vehicles for thematic development...