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...Napoleon was sure that the French General Staff had failed him. Sergei Bondarchuk has another idea. Though the English and French exchanged considerable fire and shed small oceans of blood, they had very little to do with the outcome. The beau stratagem was performed by old General Blücher and his vindictive Prussians. They and they alone are responsible for the outcome in Waterloo, or, as its subtitle might read, History Revised for Anglophobes...
Guinness had the genius to reproduce the stutter in Charles' speech which proved such a debility to the King in public life and, generally, to convey the reticence of a man denounced as tyrant but more suited for his private roles as art collector and cher papa. Harris, on the other hand, was put in the unfortunate quandary of acting out destinies both historically inaccurate and dramatically unconvincing. If I were discussing Garbo's Queen Christina, the license so common in historical romance could be admitted to extenuate glaring inaccuracies in terms of fact. But anyone who sits through...
...cher ami, at last you are here," said French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann as he spotted his British counterpart, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Luxembourg's glass-sheathed Centre Européen. "I'm glad to see you!" Did Schumann's government share that feeling? That was the critical question last week as the foreign ministers of Europe's six Common Market nations greeted the delegates from the four hopeful applicants-Ireland, Norway and Denmark as well as Britain...
...third act is an epilogue in which a plaque is unveiled in honor of the dead playwright, who has presumably gone to the grave without revealing the existence of his last prophetic play. The dialogue rains poisoned darts on love, marriage, friendship and bourgeois values, making Cher Antoine a precision-tooled piece of lapidary Gallic...
...actors and essential stage hands are allowed in the theater during Anouilh's rehearsals, and everyone involved in an Anouilh production is generally expected to maintain strict silence about the play. On first nights he hides in a corner of the theater. As usual, after the opening of Cher Antoine, he slipped quietly out of the house before the applause began and shuffled off into the night, without taking a curtain call...