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...innocent for so long that he has become a professional with no surprises to offer. The part needs an innocent innocent. Alluringly gowned and ungowned, Mercouri has enough dramatic electricity in a finger snap to have prevented the Great Power Blackout of 1965. Her voice is a husky cousin to Marlene Dietrich's, but even amplification does not always make it audible. The character she plays, a kind of ouzo-and-sympathy doxy, is unsalvageable since joyous sweet-souled prostitutes are about as believable nowadays as jolly...
Divorced. The Earl of Harewood, 44, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, and 18th in line of succession to the British throne; by the Countess of Harewood, 39; on uncontested charges of adultery with Patricia Tuckwell, 38, Australian-born onetime model who bore him a son in 1964; after 17 years of marriage, three children; in London...
...follies of the Warren family, a sorry collection of scapegraces and scapegoats. Henry, played by England's Michael Caine with a surprisingly plausible spoonbread locution, is a draft-dodging mongrel. He aims to become a real estate mogul by grabbing passels of farm land from his soldier-cousin Rad (John Phillip Law) and his Negro neighbor, Reeve (Robert Hooks...
Henry has an infallible touch for ruining whatever he comes near. Even his own little boy becomes a psychotic Oedipus wreck. Sin-burned by Henry's faults, his wife (Jane Fonda) leaves him, heading to the Menninger Clinic with their maimed son. Impotent with rage, Henry dynamites his cousin's farm, accidentally killing one of Rad's boys. Rad and Reeve combine to rebuild the land-a union of black and white that seems grey and unconvincing...
Divorced. By Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; Iris Paine Russell, 40, wealthy descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; on grounds of "incompatibility of character"; after 18 weeks of marriage (which took place last October, just 24 days after he was divorced by her second cousin, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill); in Juarez, Mexico...