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...Lindsay will appear once a week as a guest commentator and interviewer. After many years' experience in amateur theatricals, Including political conventions, Matinee Idol Lindsay will also make his movie debut soon. This week in Paris he joins the cast of Otto Preminger's Rosebud, playing a cameo role for which he probably feels well rehearsed-that of a U.S. Senator. He wouldn't say whom he is modeling his performance on, "The part is a tiny bit pompous, so I have much to choose from." The film is just a diversion ("Traveling in Europe," he explained...
This adaptation of one of Henry James' shortest and most popular works contains, in cameo, a theme that winds through more elaborate novels like The Ambassadors: the ineluctable tension between European and American cultures that leads to corruption. What Peter Bogdanovich's movie is mostly about, however, is flirting...
...Attorney General John Mitchell, 60, and former Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans, 66, who are charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury. Don Nixon was later followed to the stand by the second brother, Edward C. Nixon, 43, who appeared for the defense. For Nixon family watchers, the cameo roles played by the two brothers were a bonanza. The two men seldom venture into the glare of publicity. Indeed, Don Nixon had tried to beg off testifying because of heart trouble, but Federal Judge Lee P. Gagliardi ordered him examined by a physician and then decided that he should...
Scattered along the bends and twists of this satire-of-a-plot are cameo appearances and sight gags that somehow work. Alex Karras, the ox-like former tackle of the Detroit Lions, plays Mongo, a villain who storms into Rock Ridge and knocks out a horse with a punch in the mouth. Madeline Kahn, the nebbish circus dancer in Paper Moon, is a saloon singer who wails about her sexual fatigue in a clever ditty called "I'm Tired" (words and music, of course, by Mel Brooks...
Since Counterpoint is by genre a simple old-fashioned thriller, a professional touch could have created a breezy kind of Hollywood entertainment. Professionalism extends beyond the question of equipment--Brown's elaborate use of models and rear-projection, his advertising and the cameo stars, all are conceived in a professional way. But the appeal of a Hollywood picture depends on more than this: it has to make sense...