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...plays Lara's and Zhivago's love child, found working on the set "terribly intense." Tom Courtenay grimly recalls being asked to pose as Strelnikov on the platform of the armored train: "No dialogue. No expression. But that bloody scene took two days to shoot." Geraldine Chaplin's most vivid memory is working in the hot Spanish sun while wearing black wool stockings, boots, three sweaters and a fur jacket: "I was so soaking wet, I felt I was leaving big soggy footprints...
...subtle genius of Chaplin's tramp or of Keaton's mote in the eye of an incomprehensible universe lay beyond the range of Laurel and Hardy. But they were lovable caricatures of the dolt in Everyman, a bow and fiddle striking delightfully dissonant chords in a mad world. Witless innocence was their hallmark. It purifies even a 20's sequence in which they are pursued, clad in underdrawers, by a pair of gorgon wives toting a shotgun to avenge some fancied infidelity-as they round the corner of an apartment house, a shotgun blast brings dozens...
...Review still needs money Brooks plans to raise funds by showing rare Charlie Chaplin movies from a friend's private collection...
...Both performances are stunning. Now there are two kinds of excellent actor. One molds each role into an extension or variation of his own marked personality-like Gielgud, Hawkins, Mastroianni, Robards, Fonda. The other, and greater, is able to obliterate the self and mint an entirely fresh being-like Chaplin, Jouvet, Oliver Guinness, Brando. Plummer belongs to the second type. Having recently seen his Hamlet, Arturo Ui, and Pizarro, I just can't believe they were all played by the same...
...bitter doctrinal dispute with the dictator; Che preferred a hardline, Peking-style Communism, Castro the softer, Moscow variety (TIME cover, Oct. 8). Two weeks ago, Castro promised a document that would explain Che's absence and his status. Now before 5,000 Cubans in Havana's Chaplin Theater, Castro said that Che gave him the letter last April, asking him to read it publicly "when we considered it most advisable." Said Castro: "Those who think that revolutionaries are insensitive men have in this letter an example of all the sentiment, all the sensitivity, all the purity that...