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Knocked-Down Dauphin. De Gaulle, who was 78 last November, has called old age "a shipwreck" and insisted that "one must know how to retire." Until last week, however, the general has been a reynard about the timing of his farewell. Associates assumed that he might leave early. Since De Gaulle dotes on symbolism, the dates most often guessed were June 18, 1970, the 30th anniversary of his London broadcast urging French resistance, or his 80th birthday later that year. What prompted De Gaulle last week to stop playing coy was that another fox was suddenly being blunt...
...cozy computer reminiscent of 2001's HAL. She heads back a year later in the arms of a beautiful blond, blind male angel (John Phillip Law). In between, she meets some topflight actors who are all too lost in space-Marcel Marceau as the wizardly Professor Ping, Claude Dauphin as the President of Earth, Ugo Tognazzi as a friendly inhabitant of Planet Lytheon. Her only really amusing encounter is with David Hemmings, an inept leader of the Lytheon underground who has a hankering to try the old earthling technique of sexual intercourse...
Meaningless & Poignant. Inevitably, De Gaulle's political enemies sought to use the disorders as an excuse to bring down the government of his hand-picked Premier, Georges Pompidou, 56, who more and more was acting and speaking like a dauphin in the crisis. Both the Communists, France's second largest party after De Gaulle's own U.N.R., and the Federation of the Left, led by Francois Mitterrand, tabled a joint censure motion in the National Assembly...
...theatrical problem of St. Joan is an immense credibility gap. At the heart of the play is a simple country maid who hears what she believes to be divine voices. Are they heavenly or hallucinatory? She secures access to France's Dauphin (Edward Zang) and convinces him of her inspired mission to raise his nation from the mire of defeat and British occupation. She dons a soldier's garb, leads the army to lift the siege at Orléans, and then crowns the Dauphin King in Rheims Cathedral...
...stage and movie versions or the mystical intensity of Julie Harris in Jean Anouilh's The Lark. She settled instead for her own ability to move between ingenuous youth and wide-eyed fanaticism as the script demanded. The sight and sound of her snapping the weakling Dauphin (Roddy McDowall) into action-"I shall dare, dare, and dare again, in God's name! Art for or against me?"-was a remarkable demonstration of her stage presence...