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...readied. Morbid curiosity again? Not quite. Each is instructive in its own way. The first to be released in the U.S.-it opened last week in New York-is Hitler: The Last Ten Days, a retelling of what must be the best-known suicide since Cleopatra's. Sir Alec Guinness is the star...
...Court should replace Britain's Privy Council as the last court of appeal for Australian litigants. There was somewhat less harmony on a more substantive issue -namely, that Britain should join Australia and New Zealand in opposing further French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home merely promised "careful study" of the possible dangers...
Whitlam took it in stride. Asked at a press conference how he would rate Sir Alec's response on a scale of "bored to pusillanimous," Whitlam replied: "I wouldn't use either of those words. He was courteous and helpful." Whitlam's only truly tart words in London, in fact, were directed at the French, who insist that their tests are not nearly as dangerous as the Australians fear. "If there is nothing wrong with the tests," he said, "then why don't the French save some money and hold them in Corsica...
THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger...
Shortly after this holy hootenanny, local ecclesiastical authorities begin to be nasty to the Franciscans, killing one of the brothers. St. Francis and his friends promptly go to Rome, where they plead their case before Pope Innocent III (Alec Guinness). The Pope is moved by their presence to ruminate aloud: "In our obsession with original sin, we forget about original grace." Zeffirelli apparently has forgotten about both...