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...Finlay Lewis, now the Washington bureau chief for the Minneapolis Tribune and a journalist who has covered Mondale for a decade, goes a long way toward unraveling the mystery of the Minnesota Fritz. In his unusually candid and balanced portrait, Mondale emerges as a man of unusually good political fortune who knows how to take advantage of the many opportunities that roll his way. Clearly he is a specialist in backroom politics, and that may account for the fact that he was appointed to nearly every significant post he has held. His liberal idealism is tempered by a well-developed...
...would be unfair to describe the resolution of this ancient script except to say that it is happy. The chief joy of this production is not the plot, in any case, but the amusing game of thrust and parry carried on by Joan Plowright and Frank Finlay as Filumena and her quarry. They are an even-which is to say delightful-match, and they have been elegantly directed by Plowright's husband, Laurence Olivier. -Gerald Clarke
...Mexico and his native Poland, hugging and blessing peasants, kissing babies and stirring vast outpourings of human emotion with folksy homilies. In his unique fashion, he is rapidly becoming parish priest to the world, and this mission could only be furthered by his U.S. visit. Said the Rev. James Finlay, president of Fordham University in New York City: "He is reaching beyond geographical, political and ecclesiastical boundaries to give the man in the street the feeling that he is there...
...each and every character is a zealot, convinced not only that whatever cause he happens to be serving will change the course of human affairs for the better but that he is absolutely vital to that cause's success. The musketeers (Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay), for example, never stop for a moment to observe - as Lester does - that the French king (Jean Pierre Cassel) for whom they endlessly risk life and limb is a vain and idle popinjay. Their opponents, the servants of Cardinal Richelieu, never seem to notice that their man (deftly played...
Reed), Porthos (Frank Finlay), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) and D'Artagnan (Michael York). But Lester has added to their motto, "All for one and one for all," his own realistic coda: "And every man for himself." His musketeers are mercenaries, albeit loyal ones, and their adventures occur on the mud-puddled roads and in the filthy rooms of 17th century France...