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Bitter Falling. Even more implausible was the person named as executor of the will-Noah Dietrich, 87, Hughes' longtime lieutenant. The two had a bitter falling out in 1956 and never reconciled. Dietrich said last week, "I have no question that it's his [Hughes'] handwriting and his signature...
...Vargas (Charlton Heston) and is always right in his intuitions of guilt. The other characters in the film are marvelous: Janet Leigh as Heston's hopelessly passive young wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor as the owner of a strip joint, Joseph Cotten as a detective, but best of all, Marlene Dietrich as madam, Welles's former lover...
...neglect-in the vital matter of leaving a will. One of his personal aides, who was questioned by police in Acapulco, said that Hughes had been supposed to sign an important document, possibly a will, several days before his death, but was too ill to do so. Noah Dietrich, Hughes' former chief lieutenant, said he had seen a will, but that was back in the 1950s. Investigators began a massive dragnet search for a will, combing through Hughes' old map cases, flight bags, books and safe-deposit boxes. They looked in one box in a Hollywood Bank...
Occasionally someone will almost destroy his fragile credibility entirely by invoking well-known, and subtler, caricatures of the type he is supposed to represent. Hans, whom Eugene Buder plays with flaring nostrils and flirtatiously upturned eyes, is associated with Marlene Dietrich and Joel Grey, and although he holds his own well, they have held theirs better. Dimitri (Donald J. Campbell Jr.) resembles a wistful Zorba, but his blustery accent, unlike that of Nicholas (Gustavo B. Armagno) is not Greek and he wraps himself too earnestly in a philosophically tragical nature--especially for a Greek who yearns for a boat...
...camp commandant straddling her office chair like a grotesque Dietrich...