Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this adaptation by Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz, Volpone becomes (in literal translation) Mr. Fox, a world-weary voluptuary (Rex Harrison) who lives a vita that is incredibly dolce in contemporary Venice. "My wealth," he announces, "is no more a pleasurable object of contemplation than my navel." To enliven his ennui, he decides to bring Volpone to life, casting himself in the title role. For his unfaithful servant, he hires an unemployed actor (Cliff Robertson) who has always wanted to play the palazzo...
During the unladylike squabble for Fox's fortune, Susan Hayward suddenly expires, felled by an overdose of Seconal. Abruptly, the spirited comedy becomes a murder mystery, with blind clues pointing to everyone. Not until the closing moments, when Fox himself dies, is the mystery slickly solved. Harrison wryly narrates the ironic finale from the grave, pointing out the parallels and discrepancies between Jonson's play and the film...
...dialogue. As a director, he has regrettably settled for interior settings-constant reminders to the audience that The Honey Pot was adapted from the stage. Like Fox himself, the film suffers fatally from indecision; wavering between comedy and suspense, it slips between them and relies too heavily on Harrison's fair-gentlemanly charm to cushion the fall. The device almost works...
...Honey Pot's sweetest moments come when Harrison is trading double entendres with his ex-mistress or pirouetting around his mansion like Nureyev on LSD. But even he cannot fix the film's flaws...
Having endured a nationwide public scolding since last January's Apollo disaster, North American Aviation Inc. last week did some private scolding within its own corporate offices. Chief victim was Harrison A. ("Stormy") Storms Jr., 51, who was replaced as head of the company's Apollo-building space division by Vice President William B. Bergen, 52, former president of the Martin Co. and a North American newcomer. After the front-office shakeup, North American President J. Leland Atwood, testifying before the Senate space committee, expressed confidence that "we can effectively accomplish the lunar mission in this decade...