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...There's a third category - the gifts to lesser, later movies. The blind butler Jamessir Bensonmum in "Murder by Death." The mummified chief clerk in "Kafka." Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars," eyes glittering with wisdom, salvaging that tortured Lucas dialogue. Would there be a "Phantom Menace" without Guinness's saving injection of class in the first installment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sir Alec Guinness, 1914-2000 | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...film is more than half over. For in addition to the five famous detectives and their host, there are traveling companions, the most notable of whom is Eileen Brenan, who appears as Sam Diamond's loyal but abused Girl Friday. Attending to the guests is a blind butler named Bensonmum (Alec Guinness) and a deaf-mute cook (Nancy Walker...

Author: By Margaret ANN Hamburg, | Title: Smothered by Fluff | 7/20/1976 | See Source »

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