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FALSTAFF. Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon domi nates the stage. The film flickers with the glitter of genius-amid great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence...
...role. Immense, waddling, jowly, pantomiming with a great theatrical strawberry nose and crafty, porcine eyes, he takes command of scenes less with spoken English than with body English. In whatever he does Welles is never en tirely bad-or entirely excellent. In this film there flickers the glitter of authentic genius, along with great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence...
...than Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier. Lady Redgrave, who plays as Rachel Kempson, is accounted a superb supporting actress. And over the last year a new generation of Redgraves, who might well be known as "Michael's bloody marvels," has spangled the marquees with a retina-rocking glitter of new talent. Corin, 27, played his first big part (Sir Thomas More's son-in-law) in a big picture (A Man for All Seasons) and charmed the critics with a witty portrait of a political noddy. Lynn, 24, hit the top with a gloriously vulgar clang...
FORTUNE and Harper's Bazaar. By 1950, he returned to more venturesome art in an attempt to portray the surface glitter of U.S. society. Nowadays he captures it, often by amplifying its most sordid outcroppings. But he also suggests that life is full of fantastic fury and that picturing it is more attractive than many would expect...
...recently when her sequined dress got tangled in the sequins belonging to Marie Edith Legendre, the French consul general's wife. "I took a small loss at my hem," says Susan, "because I thought her whole dress might unravel." More serious still, there are signs that all the glitter is leading to snow blindness. Snaps the Boston Globe's Marjorie Sherman: "Frankly, I don't think I'm going to put any glitter on my Christmas tree, I'm so sick of it. It's everywhere. In everything. On their shoes. On their eyelids...