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SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, David Brand, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, David Brand, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...
...eight- hour, $27 million epic looks spectacular. Maximillian Schell, the most prominent of four actors who play Peter, has moments of leonine power, and Vanessa Redgrave is striking as his treacherous sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard and Mel Ferrer--is lost in the pageantry. Edward Anhalt's script is flabby and inert, and history is contaminated with hokey invention (a bogus meeting in London, for instance, between Peter and Sir Isaac Newton...
Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, Associate Editor Anastasia Toufexis and Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison make up the Health & Fitness team. Promises Ferrer: "We want to take a newsy story and approach it with enthusiasm and a careful eye. We won't be carried away by faddism." Says Toufexis, a veteran medical writer who likes ballet, gymnastics, diving and bicycling: "I used to be obsessive, but now I enjoy exercise in moderation." Harbison, who is a runner, gymnast and tennis player, believes in the long-term benefits of sport. Says she: "I'm not out to beat other people...
...classic, it is at least a wonderfully ingenious counterfeit of one." And even if, in this century, the counterfeit has become more evident than the ingenuity, Rostand's rhapsody has attracted new generations of star actors, from Walter Hampden to Ralph Richardson to José Ferrer in the Oscar-winning film version. But the movie ran only 112 min.; the R.S.C. Cyrano soldiers on at nearly twice that length. More important, Anthony Burgess's verse translation, while lean and clever ("Our devil's changed into a Christian brother,/ Attack one nostril and he turns the other"), irons...