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...Kremlin) and the proverbial cast of thousands, the eight- hour, $27 million epic looks spectacular. Maximillian Schell, the most prominent of four actors who play Peter, has moments of leonine power, and Vanessa Redgrave is striking as his treacherous sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard and Mel Ferrer--is lost in the pageantry. Edward Anhalt's script is flabby and inert, and history is contaminated with hokey invention (a bogus meeting in London, for instance, between Peter and Sir Isaac Newton...
...Hannah and Her Sisters is old-fashioned in another sense: its plot has the elegant geometry of a Philip Barry play. Two triangles converge at a common point: Hannah (Mia Farrow), who has two sisters, Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey), and has been married twice, first to Mickey (Woody Allen) and now to Elliot (Michael Caine). Eventually, each sister has an affair with one of Hannah's men. Elliot begins the roundelay by lurching into a mad pash for the beautiful, cheerful, lost Lee. Perhaps he is weary of Hannah's competence; she is a kind of live...
From this outline one could imagine farce or domestic tragedy. And indeed the cast of characters--three sisters, bickering parents, the satellite husbands and lovers--could be found in Allen's humorless Interiors (1978). Hannah takes its sufferers seriously but not solemnly; it massages them rather than pointing a finger. Elliot may apostrophize in soppy cliches about his infatuation ("What passion today with Lee! She was like a volcano!"), but he is canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead...
...bustling Schmidt retains a boyish quality, never more so than when he is rooting for his favorite athletes, hockey's New York Rangers. His engaging lack of inhibition prompted him to accept a cameo role as a doctor in Woody Allen's forthcoming film Hannah and Her Sisters. Truth to tell, the movie appearance was set up by Schmidt's third wife, Helen Cutting Whitney, producer and director of ABC and PBS documentaries on such topics as McCarthyism and homosexuality, and co-author, with Eugenia Zuckerman, of a feature-film script titled K.589...
...went to public high school," says Hannah Gittleman '87, "and Harvard students were always kind of a joke guess it was basically because the ones we noticed were the ones that stuck out the most--the ones who got drunk and ran through Harvard Square singing loudly and being obnoxious. We definitely had a bad image of Harvard students...