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...equal in the world. But how can so much narcissism be combined with so little real glamour? It is the lack of illusion that makes Oscar night look moribund. There is a point when disbelief can no longer be suspended: O.J. Simpson is not Gary Grant, and although Jacqueline Bisset may be the most beautiful girl in the world, she is not Ava Gardner. Without such priests and priestesses, the fertility rite means nothing...
...invitations came in the form of a subpoena, and the party itself took place in an abandoned Los Angeles jail. Guests included Performers Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Jacqueline Bisset, who were frisked, photographed and fingerprinted at the door. The mock lockup was all in honor of Author Truman Capote, who is currently in Hollywood portraying a criminologist who becomes a victim in Murder By Death, his first movie as an actor instead of a screenwriter. Capote allowed as how a night in the slammer was welcome respite from his daytime job. "Making movies is hard work," burbled Truman. "They...
...talking at each other. Next Lumet shows us his cast assembling from all over the world to board the Orient Express at Istanbul. There's the involuntary shudder of pleasure when you recognize a regal Vanessa Redgrave sailing through a crowd of Turkish peddlers, as Michael York and Jacqueline Bisset airily overturn a huge cart of oranges and step up into their carriage. Best of all, the Orient Express itself billows out steam that becomes a cloud of suspicion and hidden motives; it pulls out of the station like a great ocean liner out of port, its wheels grinding...
They got Albert Finney to play Hercule Poirot. They also got, in alphabetical order as protocol dictates, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark and Michael York, all as murder suspects. And still they got nothing...
...passenger list that may cause Lumet the most trouble. John Gielgud, Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, Sean Connery, Wendy Hiller, Richard Widmark, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, Lauren Bacall and Anthony Perkins are among those embroiled in the huggermugger aboard a train snowbound in the Alps. Lumet has planned the whole operation with military precision and looks forward to eight weeks of planting clues and feeding egos. Says he: "It's going to be done with gaiety and humor -and the very best fakery...