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...latest of these is Tom Courtenay, who plays the young delinquent hero in the film version of Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. He looks like malnutrition itself-hollow cheeks, hair too long, sallow skin that seems to harbinger a tic. He might well have been plucked off the streets by some director casting a social-protest story. He was raised, as a matter of fact, in the slums of Hull. But he was educated at the University of London, trained by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and apprenticed...
Delicate Equilibrium. Albert Finney became an international star when Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was circulated around the world. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, scheduled for release in the U.S. this autumn, is an equally good film, and Courtenay's performance has all the detailed excellence of Finney's. He plays Colin Smith 993, an inmate at Her Majesty's Borstal prison at Ruxton Towers. The place is a stately old home landscaped with barbed wire (Sillitoe's way of saying "this sceptered isle"). Smith, son of a factory worker, is the natural enemy...
...prepare for the role, Courtenay studied photographs of Czechoslovakian Runner Emil Zatopec, showing a face contorted by the strain of the marathon. Behind a camera truck, Courtenay ran for mile after mile, imitating Zatopec. But the real skill of his performance is more apparent when he is testing the roadworthiness of a stolen car, sitting home watching a peer on the telly, or walking a Skegness beach with his girl. In the first instance he displays pure boyish enthusiasm, then boyish iconoclasm, then a thoroughgoing experience of love. In each case, the emotion comes through as basic ally right...
...godfathers of Thayer Academy's Institute of Asian Studies are energetic Headmaster Gordon O. Thayer* 52, and Henry Courtenay Fenn, 68, a renowned linguist who retires this month as director of Yale's prestigious Institute of Far Eastern Languages. Gordon Thayer's incentive to teach Chinese came from his language problems in another important part of the world. Eastern Europe. Lecturing (with the help of an interpreter) through a cultural exchange program two years ago, Thayer realized how little Americans know of Eastern European language and culture-and how much less they must know about Asia. Back...
Gregg managed to pull himself from the water, and he and a fourth companion who did not slip through the ice, William J. Courtenay 2D, went to seek...