Word: artagnans
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...prints brought to life. The Impostor, far more popular at the Japanese ) box office, has the look of a grade A Hollywood costume adventure that was shot with an almond-eyed camera. The story opens in a geisha house, where lies "the bored baron" (Utaemon Ichikawa), the D'Artagnan of Japanese fiction, too bored even to bother with the dish that has been laid before him-and it isn't sukiyaki. Enter a messenger: a pretender to the throne has appeared. Is he or is he not the emperor's true son and heir? The baron will...
...Sick Old Man. King Norodom listened to the radio playback, tucked into a square meal prepared by D'Artagnan, the best chef in Cambodia, and then got into his blue station wagon to change palaces with his parents. His father, 59-year-old Prince Suramarit, has long been his close adviser; his mother, Princess Norodom Suramarit, is a handsome woman who has long kept a sharp, appraising eye upon her royal son's dancing girls and political enemies. "I am a sick old man," proclaimed the new King, getting into the spirit of his son's abdication...
Before he died at 68, Alexandre the Great wrote between 500 and 600 books and plays - an exact account is impossible. Says Biographer Maurois: "Dumas was a hero out of Dumas. As strong as Porthos, as adroit as d'Artagnan, as generous as Edmond Dantès, this superb giant strode across the 19th century breaking down doors with his shoulder . . . It is as im possible not to like him as it is not to read him . . . No one has read all of Dumas -this would be as implausible as writing it was. But most of mankind has read...
...precarious cold-war no man's land boasts no D'Artagnan, but it has its own loose version of the Three Musketeers, a dissimilar threesome who feel a need to share their lonesomeness. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma's Premier U Nu have, as one leading Yugoslav diplomat insists, "a similarity of outlook on present international developments...
...idea is his own and came to him one morning when he remarked to his wife, "Hey, how come there are no swashbucklers on TV?" A year ago, he picked up a copy of Dumas' The Three Musketeers ("It was lying around the house") and decided D'Artagnan was his man. Of course, Lerner, who has produced three B movies and a dozen episodes for TV's Gangbusters, will add his own inventive genius to that of Writer Dumas: "We started out to do a sort of adult Lone Ranger, but how much can you do with...