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...extremely private, surrounded by a high wall." In Sydney, TIME'S Tim Dare talked to Actress Judy Davis about Lean's "volatile" directorial style. Reporter John Wright tracked down more than a dozen of Lean's past and present colleagues in England, including Peggy Ashcroft and Alec Guinness. In New York City, Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka spoke with Producer Sam Spiegel and Director Michael Powell and landed a rare interview with Katharine Hepburn, whose friendship with Lean dates back to their collaboration in the 1955 movie Summertime...
...Alec Haverstick...
...jumped at the chance to work with Lean. On the set he was free to wander, plucking shots of the 235 crew members and a cast that includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Judy (My Brilliant Career) Davis, Indian Actor Victor Banerjee and, of course, Sir Alec Guinness. Guinness's career has been entwined with Lean's since the 1940s, when he was featured in the director's memorable adaptations of Dickens' Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. "Alec is a great man," is Snowdon's simple judgment. "The great ones have impeccable manners. They arrive...
...Spencer Brog (H) d. Alec Sokolow...
...fact, the disparities were as superficial as a scrim. Both men were driven by adoring, voracious mothers. Both could tell a joke or draw a tear with a melodic or verbal phrase. And both concentrated on what Composer Alec Wilder called "the bone-deep fatigue of urban gaiety." In either case, that last word applied in its ancient and current sense...