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...husband, a flamboyant but sympathetic producer, Raf Vallone is so appealing that it is hard to know why Vitti would forsake him. Whether he is arguing on the phone about Burmese distribution rights or comforting his wife in a time of need, the serpentine Vallone is a grand old charmer. We want to see more of him, but once Affair shifts from satire to bathos he fades away. There are too many such missed opportunities. Like other visitors to Cannes, Michael Ritchie arrived with good intentions, only to get so distracted that he forgot why he came in the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cannes Game | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...tribute to the resilience of the human spirit under duress. A sculptor by craft, Harrison has a witty tongue, an agile intelligence and a wicked gift for logic and paradox; yet his plight makes his animated flow of mockingly funny words self-scalding. Conti makes the character an irresistible charmer whose naughty pillow talk seduces the nursing staff and even Dr. Scott (Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs renown), who loses her professional cool along with part of her heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Who Plays God? | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...HARVARD Gilbert and Sullivan Players have carted out the old sets, hoisted the sails, and launched yet another H.M.S. Pinafore onto the very receptive waters of the public. Like the countless productions of Gilbert and Sullivan's charmer that have preceded this one, it finds an audience predisposed in its favor, ready to accept it uncritically...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Pinafore on an Old Tack | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...locale is an African state called Kambawe, autocratically ruled by President Mageeba (Olu Jacobs), an educated charmer and a closet savage. When Mageeba's regime is threatened by rebels, the world's newsmen smell blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scoop | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Charmer...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Protesters Demonstrate Against Burger | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

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