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...time warp, were hunted down and killed by their human hosts, who were frightened by the prospect of a future world run by apes. In the next installment, to be released later this month, the chimpanzees' destiny is fulfilled anyway, as Zira and Cornelius' son Caesar leads a revolt of the simians, who begin to build their own civilization and await the arrival of Charlton Heston. the famous astronaut whose visit was described in Episode 1 . . . Anybody who is confused-or thinks that he has wandered into a children's matinee-has not been following...
...McGovern's list, note that it is longer, and vote for him because he has more show-biz appeal? Am I supposed to see that Cyd Charisse, whose legs I admire, is for Nixon, and opt for him on that basis? Is Ed Muskie my man because "Little Caesar" is his? Do I pass up Hubert Humphrey because I am not turned on by Percy Faith's music...
...wonder why American journalists keep trying to write about Rome as though it provided some very significant analogy to America. Remember John Gunther producing that book about Julius Caesar? Teddy White wrote a play, too, about crossing the Rubicon. Even Hemingway, in the midst of covering the Spanish Civil War, wrote a grotesque playlet about the three Roman soldiers who had just crucified Christ. One of them keeps repeating, "I tell you, he was pretty good in there today...
...taste for the gypsy life," he explains. During his school years he became interested in acting, and one of his first stage appearances was in a student production of "The Merchant of Venice." He continued to do much Shakespeare, acting in "Hamlet," "Richard the Third" and "Julius Caesar" after he joined Michael Croft's National Youth Theater at the age of 16. The members of this stage company were teenagers -- or "young toughs and lay-abouts," as he calls them -- drawn from all over England, who spent their "hols" acting and producing plays throughout England and the Continent...
Coming after a disastrous Hamlet, Julius Caesar is a refreshing reminder of how good the OCSC can be, and usually is. Many purists will be offended by the rehabilitation of Caesar but the effect is to make this the most interesting production of this play in a decade...