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Consider the lines. Things aren't so good in Old Vienna. The students are rumbling; the peasants are restless. Emperor Franz-Josef (played in a triumph of miscasting by James Mason), surveys the latest student riot from the palace balcony. Line (in a tone of melancholy): "So we've come to this...
...Emperor's son Rudolf is impersonated by Omar Sharif, an Egyptian actor who plays an Austrian prince about as successfully as he played an American hood in Funny Girl. Rudolf, a wastrel who sasses his old man, takes frequent injections of morphine "for my migraines" and spends an unconscionable amount of his time with showgirls and socialists. Line (father to son): "In one respect you've always been consistent. You've disappointed...
...driven into the arms of a regal young noblewoman named Maria (Catherine Deneuve). The empassioned lovers flee to Mayerling, the royal hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods, where they eventually commit joint suicide. Before he leaves, Rudolf resigns his princely inheritance by throwing his ring in the Emperor's face. Line: "So much for your Holy Roman Empire...
...bracelets round the wrists of President Nguyen Van Thieu, Premier Tran Van Huong and other South Vietnamese dignitaries. Stoically, the visitors sipped from the brimming urns of mnam kpie, a sour-tasting homemade rice wine. Then they moved on to lunch in the comfortable former summer residence of exiled Emperor Bao Dai, in the highland provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot. The Saigon dignitaries, together with a host of American officials, were joining in ceremonies marking what they hoped would be the end of a tribal rebellion. It was a gala occasion, albeit marked by a certain sense...
...prepared to accomplish any mission and to assume any mandate that could one day be confided to you by the nation." Pompidou and almost everyone else assumed that this was De Gaulle's oracular way of naming his close comrade dauphin, readying him for the day when the emperor retired. Last week's emphatic statement tempered such speculation. Observed Le Monde: "De Gaulle disavows the man who for six years was his closest collaborator...