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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). A Majority of One, in which Sir Alec Guinness plays a Japanese businessman, and Rosalind Russell a Jewish widow from Brooklyn...
...figures in medieval costume" and was assured by his mother that cities were "unhealthy and unnatural places of exile." His father, a publisher (Chapman & Hall) of theatrical disposition, was a sort of hearty Walter Mitty who continually pretended that he was somebody else. Evelyn himself, though somewhat daunted by Alec, an extraverted elder brother who also became a novelist (Island in the Sun), was a dreamy and credulous child who adored Sunday evensong and lived in "an even glow of pure happiness...
...opens with credits superimposed over a crayon drawing of grass, trees, and the like, which dissolve into Alec Guiness's boots, whence we pan up to Guiness's face. And from here Dr. Zhivago begins a long downhill trek, surprising us about every ten minutes when it can't get worse but does...
...says Alec Guiness turning to the audience to deliver an aside not unlike one of George Burns's in the old Burns & Allen show, "Then it's a gift!" Some laugh; some cry; others are already on their feet, dancing in the aisles. Boris Pasternak never had it so good...
...trying to make up his mind. Should he see Shaw? There would be four revivals in London in the course of the year, one of them with Sir Ralph Richardson. Coward? Four of his plays would run, with Noel in two of them. Arthur Miller? Sir Alec Guinness just opened in Incident at Vichy. Musicals? Hello, Dolly! has Mary Martin, no less. Chekhov? Sir John Gielgud and Claire Bloom were great in Ivanov. There was also a new Hamlet, starring a 24-year-old flash named David Warner. Also plays by two of Britain's most important newcomers, Harold...