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Midmorning on Oct. 10, 1980, a plane flew low over the foothills of the Khao Khouy Mountains in southern Laos. As it passed above the village of Long Sa, the craft began trailing plumes of reddish-yellow gas. Villagers enveloped in the falling mist felt dustlike particles landing on their skin. The air smelled of burning peppers. Ma Hear, who saw the mist fall on the village from a protected lean-to on a nearby hill, recalled that within minutes many of Long Sa's 1,000 residents fell ill. Itchy rashes, followed by tiny blisters, appeared on their...
...hitmen. Amin services an interracial harem. Amin juggles the lives of Arab radicals and Jewish captives at Entebbe airport. Amin eats the flesh of an honest judge he has ordered killed. Perhaps Patel too lovingly details the baroque torture, and Joseph Olita's unsteady command of the acting craft often makes Amin seem too cuddly a cannibal. Still, the film serves as an effective comic-book primer on the most colorful mass murderer...
Writers have been actors for a long time, of course; Shakespeare and Molière learned their craft on the boards performing in their own plays. It can also be, and often is, argued that writing is a form of acting. "I act all my parts when I write a play," observes Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge). Miller says that he would probably have become a player if he had failed as a playwright. "I well could have," he says. "Some people think I'm pretty good...
...comic and sensitive actor, are overlapping parts of the same intricate talent. If the fates are colorblind, they will start engraving his name on next year's Oscar for his performance as that most exasperating, charming, contradictory of humans-Richard Pryor-in Live on the Sunset Strip. In craft as well as celebrity, Pryor is not merely hot; he is, as Variety has characterized him, "incendiary...
...Rosi's actors are superb, but a special word must be said for Vanel. You can read everything Rosi wants to say about the values of patient intelligence, unassuming craft in the seams of his ancient face. One could study him forever, and do worse than study Three Brothers more than once...