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Strong and effortless, Cragun tactfully puts a matinee idol's figure at the service of his roles, making Romeo, Petruchio and even Onegin believable and remarkably affecting. The marvel, though, is Marcia Haydée. Experts correctly point out that she is not a great dancer technically. Most would turn puce at the thought of mentioning her in the same breath with Margot Fonteyn. But few dancers within memory have projected the rangi of whims and wishes or invoked the delicate interplay of emotions that flow from the least gesture of Haydée's body, the slightest...
...Hepburn. "At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age." This spareness carries over into her profession. "Addition can make an enormously interesting artist," says Kate, "but the elimination makes a great artist. Simplifying, simplifying, simplifying." She relaxes by playing tennis or taking long walks. When she and Director Michael Benthall worked on The Millionairess, she used to insist that he run around the Central Park reservoir with her every morning. "It nearly killed me," he recalls. "This time I refused...
After his father's death in 1942, Walter Annenberg pledged on the front page of his most prized legacy, the Philadelphia Inquirer, to live the rest of his life in the City of Brotherly Love and to uphold "the great traditions" of the newspaper. Annenberg stopped living in Philadelphia this past April when his long friendship with Richard Nixon got him a new address in London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Last week he announced he was also giving up the Inquirer. He sold both the morning Inquirer and its sister paper, the afternoon...
Unhappily, he is contained in a clumsily updated block off the old Chips. It is no longer the Great War but World War II that punctuates the scholastic calendar, Chips' missus (Petula Clark) becomes the victim not of childbirth but of a V-l rocket. Still, the boys are the same deferential crew; the school is ivied and kind, an eon removed from the kind of place Orwell considered "a tightrope over a cesspool." The only instance of sadism, in fact, is the disastrous decision to make Goodbye, Mr. Chips a musical. As a result, Leslie Bricusse was given...
Bearing Fruit. Toward this end, he turned to writing, supporting himself for 15 years with teaching jobs, and wrote part or all of at least a dozen novels. "I'm a great believer in natural organic growth. You grow a lot of things for a long time, and eventually something flowers and bears fruit." The first novel Fowles submitted to a publisher was The Collector, which was made into a film. After that, he didn't have to teach any more...