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...always hoped for a great deal." The voice carries the deliberate calm of a man who has struggled singly and triumphed over great odds. One thinks of Gary Cooper in the last scenes of High Noon, though Kennedy now sees himself living in a smash movie by Federico Fellini...
DIED. Richard Basehart, 70, sonorous-voiced actor whose wide-ranging career included such distinctive roles as the dying Scotsman in Broadway's The Hasty Heart, the mournful clown in Fellini's film La Strada, and the stern submarine admiral on television's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. The son of a newspaperman from Zanesville, Ohio, Basehart consistently sought to avoid stereotypes and expand his range as an actor. In later years he used his authoritative baritone to do narrations and readings, as he did at the closing ceremonies...
...FELLINI NEEDED anything to make him hang up his clipboard and maul out his casting book it is Neil Israel's Bachelor Party, a working man's 8 1/2 that within the framework of an allegorical pre-wedding debauchery provides a scary but ultimately redemptive examination of the bases of modern society...
...Brattle Theatre(40 Brattle St.) doesn't show Casablanca much anymore. The Brattle now shows good foreign films and what can only be described as well-known obscure films. Bergman, Fellini, and Polanski works are standard fare. Although it tries to showcase "artistic" actors and directors, the Brattle is rarely an innovator and tends to show only what has worked in the past or in similar communities elsewhere...
After taking a heavy course in abnormal psychology or early human development, you might consider two evenings a week of movie greats, in Visual and Environmental Studies S-195, "Film Masterpieces." The classics analyzed include works by Bergman, Fellini, Hitchcock, Ford, and Capra. But don't be misled--you won't get by without a price. In this case, the "screening...