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...romance, it left something to be desired. there was none of the mythic sweep of Tristan and Isolde, not a glimmer of the mystical intensity of Heathcliff and Catherine, nothing akin to Romeo and Juliet's tragic inevitability. But the affair between Bill and Monica--if affair is the appropriate word for an "inappropriate relationship"--has something to teach us anyway, in unexpected ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Feminist Lothario | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...director saw Fiennes in the TV film A Dangerous Man: Lawrence of Arabia and then in a remake of Wuthering Heights. "His Heathcliff," Spielberg says, "was a feral man, a kind of grownup Wild Child." He met Fiennes and tested him for Goeth. "Ralph did three takes. I still, to this day, haven't seen Take 2 or 3. He was absolutely brilliant," the director says. "After seeing Take 1, I knew he was Amon." In Fiennes' eyes, Spielberg says, "I saw sexual evil. It is all about subtlety: there were moments of kindness that would move across his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind the Monster | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

Qassem has served three stretches in jail on suspicion of being an activist. He is a man in his mid-30s, with black Heathcliff eyes and deep grooves like parentheses around his mouth. In the dusk he recalls the rituals of interrogation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Intifadeh Of the Soul | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...What are you reading these days? "Wuthering Heights," he replies. Ah, yes. Hollywood made a movie from that one 50 years ago, and made a star of the actor who played Heathcliff. Larry something. What ever happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: King Ken Comes to Conquer | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...generation he was Heathcliff and Hamlet; for another, the wily granddad of movie melodrama. And for the ages this prodigious, protean figure was our century's greatest actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vol. 134 No. 4 JULY 24, 1989 | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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