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...senses that Pasternak had something else in mind and screen writer Robert Bolt also. Presumably we are supposed to identify with Zhivago, whose individualism is being cramped by the system. But it's not easy to identify with a character who does nothing but write poems we never see. In fact, the only evidence for Zhivago's poems is that he looks at the moon a lot and seldom speaks; and while Sharif can look at the moon with the best of them, it's not enough to make a character...
During the past five years, some 15,000 backyard mechanics have bolt ed souped-up engines onto skeleton aluminum frames, stuck on a couple of tractor seats and suspended the entire Rube Goldberg contraptions on bloated airplane tires - sometimes two up front and four in back. Organized into a par cel of clubs, the enthusiasts range from young mothers to 70-year-old business men, from hard-nosed competitors to misty-eyed naturalists. They all have one thing in common - a child's impatience for the next rally or picnic...
...Lear (with Paul Scofield) in New York, and he has designed productions for Co vent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera. For the movies, he directed Olivier in Beggar's Opera, Belmondo and Moreau in Moderate Cantabile, and Lord of the Flies. The controversial Marat/Sade is also his. Robert Bolt, who wrote the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, and who wrote the play A Man for All Seasons, is now cranking up the screenplay for Seasons, which will star Scofield-as soon as Actor Scofield completes his London stage run in Gogol's The Government Inspector...
...cogs and cam wheels rather than their master. As the enfant terrible of kinetics, he exhibited his Homage to New York (once) in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art in 1960. Despite the efforts of the fire department, his machine destroyed itself. Since then, his bolt-and-nutty contraptions have been more durable. His Dissecting Machine (opposite page) is a gleeful guillotine a gogo, a Grand Guignol comment on man as the victim of his own existence. Says Tinguely: "Life is play, movement, perpetual change. From the moment life is fixed, it is no longer true...
...Pasternak's novel, the love story of Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) was part of a vast canvas of war, revolution and social upheaval. Scenarist Robert Bolt has condensed much of this story through a narrator, Yuri's Bolshevik brother (Alec Guinness). The device seems awkward at times, but the flashbacks spring vividly to life on their own. The couple's first wordless encounter takes place aboard a tramcar in Moscow, and the headlong rush of their interwoven destinies is a subtle, unifying symbol of Zhivago. Trains wail along outside the house where...