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Oscar night is an involuntary collaboration between DeMille and DeSade. As the television cameras pan the contestants and the critics pan the show, muscles twitch, words are flubbed, sweat drenches dinner jackets and gowns. No such problems are likely to bother Geneviève Bujold. Nominated for her starring role opposite Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days, the Canadian actress can hardly wait for the eve of April 7. "I like moments of density," she says. "The odds are heavily against me. But even if I lose, the moment of loss will stay with me until...
...cello. Partly it was the dark, liquid eyes, staring past the camera in what her admirers described as hypnotic lust and what her ophthalmologist analyzed as acute myopia. But after all, there have been hundreds of promising starlets with shiny eyes, trained voices and good bones. With Bujold what made the difference was the ability to meld the parts and the actress into something special...
...addition to M.A.S.H. and Start the Revolution, are two more Sutherland films. In Kelly's Warriors, a World War II farce, he portrays an oddball tank commander named Oddball. Canadian Producer-Director Almond has starred him in The Act of the Heart with Mrs. Almond, Genevieve Bujold. Although now based in Hollywood, Sutherland is very much the un-Hollywood man. Most of his clothes are hand-me-downs from his movies, and his only two luxuries are his sports cars, a Ferrari and a Lotus (on which he is still making payments). A big evening is dinner with...
Throughout the film, audiences may be reminded of a late-show favorite, The Private Life of Henry VIII, starring Charles Laughton rumbustiously chomping up silversides of beef and dialogue. It was a superior treatment of the same subject in every sense save one. As the current Anne Boleyn, Genevieve Bujold refuses to accept the facile role of the wronged woman. Starting as a beautiful child, she contrives to catch the conscience and the passion of the King. With growing eroticism -and ironclad chastity-she reduces the monarch to pawn size, forces him to divorce Katherine of Spain and take...
...would have been easy to play the spider ensnared by her own web, but Bujold knows better. In her "doleful prison," she suddenly appears as the real Anne must have been: a clever child who grew in stature not in the brilliance of her court but in the shade of her executioner. The performance establishes the star, but not her setting. A great King may be enough to restore a country; a noble Queen is insufficient to save a base film...