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...history at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and a Southerner himself, was not attracted to Butler by hero worship. "I wanted to take on the meanest damned rascal I could find," West explains. But in sorting through the myths, West discovered that beneath the Beast's rapacious exterior dwelt a man of wit, large ideas and generous humanitarianism...
...walnut-paneled library, in William Ritman's massively evocative set, melds vaulting elegance with mute foreboding. The first person Julian meets is a butler named Butler (John Heffernan), who is not a butler. The first thing he sees is a scale model of the chateau, perfect in every exterior and interior detail. This permits clever wordplay on the ambiguity of appearance v. reality, but its blunt literalism sadly lacks the intellectual subtleties that Pirandello so often brought to the same theme. Julian meets Miss Alice (Irene Worth) and at the end of Act II is seduced...
...CORNEILLE (full name: Corneille Guillaume Beverloo), 42, was born in Belgium of Dutch parents. His splats and spatters of color mash nature out flat like culture-smear samples sandwiched between giant microscope slides. "I always need to latch onto exterior reality," he says, "but I don't do any preliminary work. It's like jazz taking a theme: the rest is spontaneous, emotional creation...
...Steiger, 39, has played Al Capone, as well as a thug in On the Waterfront. But a sterling personality belies that base exterior, as Italian Producer Ermanno Olmi knew, and so he cast Steiger as Pope John XXIII, in the Vatican-approved screen version of the late Pope's diary. And There Came a Man, as it will be called, is now being filmed in John's native Sotto il Monte and, says Olmi firmly, "there will be no mixing of the sacred and profane." Says Steiger, who was raised a Lutheran: "I consider this part a regeneration...
Flabby characterization doesn't help, but the film's compelling fault is its total lack of tension. Underneath a sometimes-bizarre exterior beats a heart of purest melodrama: will Reason and Humanity save Miller from the whirling ripsaw? The answer is really never in doubt, and melodrama without suspense is like borsht without beets...