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...Actor Burt Lancaster, 59, was ready to play Moses, whose eye at 120, according to the Bible, "was not dim, nor his natural force abated." Announcing his role in a six-part TV series written by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange), Lancaster said, ''Moses will be very different from the version put on the screen by Cecil B. DeMille." None of that larger-than-life stuff. "My Moses will be a real man," declared Burt, whose son William plays the young Moses in Egypt. "Not a hero, not a leader, but a man who is aware...
...Dancing follows the getaway trail of a band of train robbers in the Old West, led by Burt Reynolds, who plays a taciturn and tough ex-Army Captain. In the midst of its carefully planned heist, his gang is forced to include Sarah Miles in the escape. Miles portrays a rich young runaway wife, who improbably decides to board the train at the spot where Reynolds' men dynamite the tracks...
...guys (Jack Warden and Bo Hopkins) naturally have a fierce letch for her. The third desperado, a stronger and more reserved type named Jay Grobart (Burt Reynolds), intercedes on behalf of her honor. This causes all sorts of fraternal tensions during the trek across country, leading to violence, death and a highly unlikely romance. The affair is finally consummated when Jay sweeps the adoring Catherine up in his arms and mutters, "You are the god-damnedest woman I ever met," as he bears her off to bed in the hotel of a deserted mining town...
...movie does have some casual charms: a good, rugged sense of Western landscape by Director Sarafian and a rather fetching performance by Sarah Miles, less mannered than her recent appearance in The Hireling (TIME, July 9). Burt Reynolds is best of all. His is a silly, thankless part, but he plays it smoothly, with a strong undercurrent of ironic humor. He is a deft and winning actor, and it would be good to see him again in something like Deliverance, in a part that challenged his abilities rather than pampered them...
...fame. He was picked by the parent H.J. Heinz Corp. (fiscal 1973 sales: $1.2 billion) as its president, thus becoming one of the few foreigners ever to win that title with a giant U.S.-based company. O'Reilly is the day-to-day operating head, while R. Burt Gookin, 59, remains chief executive, but O'Reilly is widely believed to be in line to succeed Gookin...