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...measure of a movie actor is in how many roles he can make himself invisible, only Claude Rains ever gave Alec Guinness a run at the crown...
...Alec Guinness every time - there was a reliable pleasure in that. His eyes, which could droop or bluster or mourn or scorn, were canvases of the subtlest possible histrionics. The thin-lipped British smile that could be a billboard of polite derision, shy mischief (or searing wistfulness), usually in some part elegant. But every time you saw Alec Guinness he was a little different, as if you were watching a quietly joyous or angry or befuddled or quixotic little man who looked just like Alec Guinness. And boy, could this...
...Hollywood, David Lean used Guinness to hold up his epics, like the third leg of a tripod. As Colonel Nicholson in "Bridge on the River Kwai," the Arab prince Feisal in "Lawrence of Arabia," Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago in "Doctor Zhivago," there was the story, the place, and somewhere, Alec Guinness. The moment in "Kwai" when the maniacally correct Nicholson stumbles across William Holden - "You!" - and looks at the ground as bullets fly and disillusionment explodes all over Nicholson's face - could have won him his Best Actor all by itself. The movie, too big for the grimacing Holden to fill...
Alexander "Alec" Barry Gale Sevy '00, a Crimson editor, was a neurobiology concentrator in Adams House. Jay S. Wiley '00, a Crimson editor, was a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House...
...four floors of office space in downtown Honolulu--a city chosen for its almost equidistance between Hollywood and Tokyo--and you'll see sleep-deprived animators getting strands of our heroine Aki's hair to waft just so, or watching endless video loops of voice talents James Woods, Alec Baldwin, Ming-Na and Ving Rhames trying to make their characters' lips move in exactly the same...