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...hard to fathom how a movie like The Next Man gets made. Watching Sean Connery and Cornelia Sharpe bounce from one inanity to another, one can only guess at the origins of such a project. Consider, for example, some possible entries in a film executive's diary...
Playing opposite her, Cornelia Ravenel makes a low-key, sensuous and soft-spoken Kate. Enwrapped in fantasy, she lounges on her divan, her eyes half-closed, as her two lovers fight for the territory of her body; then, terrible in her knowledge, she strikes back, her soft voice hissing vindictiveness. It is all remarkably effective...
...Cornelia Sharpe stashed her braces and auditioned for the first of her 200 TV commercials. Now 28 and a seasoned cinema bunkmate (appearing with Al Pacino in Serpico, with Michael Sarrazin in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud), the actress has sunk her straightened teeth into a new role. Cast as a neo-Mata Hari in The Next Man, Sharpe sets out to wipe out a Saudi Arabian Minister of State, played by Sean Cannery, 46. Would-be assassin, however, quickly turns amorist. "It's a love story dipped in oil," coos Cornelia, who hints that her days...
Marital Difficulties. That leaves the motivation for the taping a mystery. Although there have been rumors that the two were having marital difficulties, there has been only one credible explanation for what Cornelia might have wanted to learn about George's telephone conversations. Claiming it had "highly reliable sources," the Montgomery Advertiser reported that Cornelia did institute the taping, but only after she learned that George had placed her under some kind of surveillance. According to the Advertiser, Cornelia heard her husband make "disparaging remarks" about her on the tapes and consulted a lawyer about a divorce. When Wallace...
Clearly, neither George nor Cornelia was about to clear up the many unanswered questions. Unlike the former holder of the century's most famous tapes, Wallace was apparently determined not to be embarrassed by anything on the recordings. The tapes, he revealed, "are no longer in existence...