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...with good reason. Irene Handl, now 82, appeared with Peter Sellers in I'm All Right, Jack (1960) and with Terry-Thomas in Make Mine Mink (1960); she also played the deranged hero's mother in Morgan! (1966), in which she made a dottily poignant pilgrimage to the London grave of Karl Marx. In addition to these and other movie roles, plus extensive work in the theater and television, Handl found the time to write a novel. The Sioux was first published in 1965 and elicited glowing responses from the likes of Noel Coward and Daphne du Maurier. After initial...
...little color in your face for a change." She will make him a worthy Benoir, fit to assume his rightful inheritance of family leadership and at least (pounds)30 million, or kill him in the process. She rages: "You! You will drive me into the grave with those bones! It is ridiculous to be as thin as that! It is idiotic!" His frail physique does not prevent Mama from administering energetic corporal punishment. Castleton, who finds he cannot help loving the ridiculous Dauphin, grows increasingly alarmed: "Christ, she does wade into the poor little...
...their faith in armed struggle . . . have allowed themselves to be tricked by false ideologies," he said, showing flashes of anger. "Evil is never a road to good! . . . Violence inexorably engenders new forms of oppression and slavery, ordinarily more grave than those which it pretends to liberate . . . I ask you, then, in the name of God: Change your course!" The audience of 40,000 (no ponchos were allowed for fear of concealed weapons) chanted, "Ayacucho wants peace." The Pope, a bishop said later, seemed to be weeping...
...couple of hundred witnesses," says Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton (played in the film by Rip Torn). "By picking which ones to use, you can pretty much write any script you want--which is what they did." Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who took office in 1982, expresses "grave disappointment" with the show. "The city of Atlanta dealt with a tragedy that had a potential for enormous personal and racial conflict, and really went through it together," he asserts. "What we have is a docudrama that rewrites history." Less partial observers, too, are appalled at the film's distortions. "They...
...Arab leader put Israel on notice that it must not permit those who migrate to Israel to take up residence in territory claimed by the Palestinians. Warned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: "If this leads to the settlement of Ethiopians in the West Bank, it will be an extremely grave matter...