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Sophia Loren is delightfully visible everywhere these days. She is playing lowdown adventure in Arabesque, high comedy in Lady L., has just finished A Countess from Hong Kong for Charlie Chaplin, and the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan is showing a galleryful of still pictures of the lovely Loren face. "It has been a marvelous year for me," she chirped last week. "And I've gotten married. What more could...
This spring, film makers from all over the world have been attracted to London by its swinging film industry, whose latest export to the U.S. is Morgan!, a hilarious piece of insanity. Charlie Chaplin is making The Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren. Francois Truffaut is just finishing Fahrenheit 451 with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Roman Polanski is making a horror satire called The Vampire Killers. Robert Aldrich is starting up a war film called The Dirty Dozen, and Sidney Lumet is working with Maximilian Schell, James Mason and Simone Signoret in The Deadly Affair...
...creature walking onstage at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall looks like one-third each of Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin and a sparrow. He bobs to the audience, weaves around the piano, pecks the air with his beak, hovers over the piano bench, then alights. "I don't know whether to laugh or cry," mutters an onlooker to her companion. A moment later she knows: when Vladimir Ashkenazy plays, nobody laughs and everybody cries. They cry real tears sometimes, but mostly they cry "Bravo!" and "Encore...
...conflict is like this: Should Zhivago be allowed to live an idyllic existence, alternating between his wife, Geraldine Chaplin, and his mistress, Julie Christie, and all the while pen those poems? Or should he, like any decent fellow, devote some of his energies to aiding his fellow...
Julie Christie would be the picture's saving grace if she had more to do or say in it. Geraldine Chaplin might as well start her career all over again; certainly no one should hold this first role against her. Actually, Zhivago's only well-thought-out role falls to Rod Steiger, who makes the most of it and--by way of reward--gets to take Julie Christie off into Siberia...