Word: finches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Disney cartoon, Robin Hood. This migration of Disney's iconography from masscult to the commercial fringes of "high" art (it happened to Norman Rockwell last year) will be prodded along by a 7½-lb. tome entitled The Art of Walt Disney, written by English Art Critic Christopher Finch with the full cooperation of the Disney Archives and published, at $45, by Harry N. Abrams. The text has one defect: it is much too unctuous. Nevertheless the book reveals more clearly than anything written before the intricacy of the collaboration that went on in the studio in its earlier...
...ranged from outrage to "So what?" AFL-CIO President George Meany called it "so fantastic as to be almost beyond belief. God bless the blunderers at Watergate. If they hadn't been so clumsy, America would never have known about things like this." Declared former HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch, a longtime Nixon associate: "I'm literally astonished." Ousted Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel observed wryly that his problem was not being overheard at the White House but being heard at all. Nevertheless, he thought anybody talking to a President should be aware of any taping "as a matter...
Here are Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson, two players of skill and intelligence, lending dignity and a measure of passion to a sort of pocket pageant that could bring out the worst in any actor. Rattigan's script-an adaptation of his play A Bequest to the Nation-is a damp recounting of the infamous romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, a liaison that scandalized Georgian London and threatened, for a time, Britain's naval might...
...Finch and Jackson are clever enough to fight their way through the musty veneer. Finch is both salty and regal, gently flamboyant without ever becoming grandiloquent, a trap that Rattigan's script sets for him at every turn. Because Jackson is an eminently subtle actress, her Emma Hamilton is not merely a creature of fire, but a vulnerability imperfectly concealed beneath layers of scar tissue. The supporting actors are stalwart, except for Michael Jayston, who suffers from a kind of congenital insipidity...
...cast is large and largely helpless. Finch, a professional to the quick, has the decency not to look embarrassed, even when singing knock-kneed Bacharach-David soliloquies with lines like "Have I found Shangri-La/ Or has Shangri-La found me?" Liv Ullmann, practically impacted in makeup, smiles bravely; and there is a peppy song-and-dance number, kind of a Donald O'Connor comic turn, by Bobby Van, who is most engaging as a show-biz ham. Sally Kellerman plays a neurotic Newsweek correspondent. Also on hand are John Gielgud, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta...