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...BUTLEY...
...death of Ben Butley...
...Butley teaches English at the University of London, but this is not a day on which he could possibly focus his eyes on a student or a lecture note. Alcohol has become the hemlock of his middle age; he gulps straight from the bottle and his self-destructive binges have begun to overlap. This is the day that his wife (Holland Taylor) tells him that she is leaving him permanently for another man. More homo than hetero, Butley is further staggered to learn that his colleague-protégé is dropping him for another lover. To compound the bitterness...
...Star Dominique Sanda, in the recently completed movie Impossible Object. "When I found the script for the picture, I realized that I needed an actor with every nuance-comedy, pathos, the chaos of everyday life-and no self-pity whatever. I saw all these things in Bates' Butley, and I realized that only he could play it." Michael Cacoyannis, who directed Bates as the repressed intellectual in Zorba the Greek, adds: "For most actors it is enough that they manage one mood with competence. Bates reflects three or four moods at the same time...
...private person, and his own personality tends to be hidden, chameleonlike, behind his roles. He even takes on some of the characteristics of his character. When he played in The Caretaker, for instance, he began to fantasize, like Mick, about faraway places. Though he has not fallen apart, like Butley in the present role, he has at least taken on the appearance of the character, and looks disheveled, rumpled and unmanaged, even offstage. However, the most visible eccentricities Bates himself indulges in are vegetarianism and homeopathic medicine...