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DARRELL MINTZ ALEC McDOUGALL Bellingham, Wash...
...Pasternak's novel, the love story of Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) was part of a vast canvas of war, revolution and social upheaval. Scenarist Robert Bolt has condensed much of this story through a narrator, Yuri's Bolshevik brother (Alec Guinness). The device seems awkward at times, but the flashbacks spring vividly to life on their own. The couple's first wordless encounter takes place aboard a tramcar in Moscow, and the headlong rush of their interwoven destinies is a subtle, unifying symbol of Zhivago. Trains wail along outside the house where...
...Lean first thought of his Lawrence, Peter O'Toole, then, to add "a certain foreignness," he decided on Egyptian-born Omar Sharif (whose hair was thatched over and his eyes slightly pulled back to give him a vaguely Tartar gaze). For subsidiary roles, Lean picked two knights, Sir Alec Guinness as Zhivago's brother (making Guinness' fifth picture with Lean, beginning with Great Expectations) and Sir Ralph Richardson, who plays Tonya's father, with Siobhan McKenna as Tonya's mother. To add further strength to the cast, Lean tapped Rita Tushingham (The Girl with Green...
This intriguing little tale of wartime skulduggery, somewhat reminiscent of The Man Who Never Was, is a minor episode in Alec Waugh's rambling but always engrossing story about a British counterespionage unit in Beirut during...
...MULE ON THE MINARET by Alec Waugh. 506 pages. Farrar, Straus and G/'roux...