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Since 1963, when she first saw Peter Sellers in I'm All Right, Jack, Paris Correspondent Sandra Burton has been haunted by the actor's zany alter egos. "His portrayal of a stupidly arrogant British shop steward kept creeping into my college thesis on Britain's Angry Young Men," she recalls. "In 1974, when I was interviewing an M.I.T. disarmament expert for TIME, I couldn't help thinking of Sellers' Dr. Strangelove. And his Inspector Clouseau defined my first encounter with a French police detective." But when Burton interviewed Sellers in Paris for this week...
Sellers answers questions with physical enactments and stand-up impressions, Burton found. "He thinks with his body and voice as well as his mind." When asked to explain the process by which he created the anonymous voice of Chance the gardener for the film Being There, the actor "began to transform himself into a computer," Burton says. "He pretended he was a machine reading a tape of several voices and rejecting one after another until the right voice registered." Over the course of the interviews, Sellers managed to imitate human voices as well, ranging from Lord Snowdon's uncle...
...Summer and Smoke. Her full-length dresses seem like veils, of which the seventh is soon to drop. She goes to the library, attracting boys who would never open a book. "Beware of early fire," warns her mother. Fire is kindled when she meets a "romantically handsome youth" (Arnie Burton), who seems virginal beyond belief. Gloria talks to him of love in a tenderly erotic scene and does a dance of sexual awakening...
...Year's Day had hardly ended when Senior Editor Otto Friedrich met with the Nation section staff to plan this issue's 17-page series of stories, the main narrative of which was written by Associate Editor Burton Pines. Says Friedrich: "We simply hit the ground running this year." TIME correspondents on three continents were already pursuing various aspects of the story...
...pulpit. A transplanted Welshman with volatile eyebrows and a powerful Thespian gift, he is not a large man, but he fills the brooding gothic gloom of the Near North Side church with his resounding voice, as the late Dylan Thomas might if he were reading Yeats, or Richard Burton would if playing Hamlet. Like the poet Thomas, Davies grew up in Swansea, Wales. He claims that Burton patterned his style on Welsh preachers, the only regular actors on display during his youth...