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...Gideon Petrie (John Gielgud) is an aged, Bertrand Russell-like champion of rationalism living ascetically at Shrivings, a converted medieval abbey in the Cotswold Hills. From there he guides a peace movement and blandly preaches the perfectibility of human nature to youthful acolytes and to his wife (Wendy Hiller), with whom he renounced sex, on principle...
...losers in the F-15 race suffered a severe blow. Maryland-based Fairchild Hiller Co. (1968 sales: $244 million) saw its hopes of suddenly becoming a major aerospace firm dashed. Bigger North American Rockwell ($2.6 billion) badly needs new business to offset declines in its Apollo program work. The company spent $25 million on its bid, but now layoffs are in prospect...
...worked for Preminger last summer, as one of the only eight extras "That was a real break. Here I hardly know who Hiller is, but there we all got really close. Preminger's a tyrant: he has a reputation for making his stars cry, but he'll always apologize afterwards. He makes his cast nervous: it gets more out of them...
...Hiller has sworn not to use any too-artsy techniques, like the slow motion in Goodbye Columbus as Ali bounds toward the river for a swim one balmy evening. Altogether, Hiller impressed me as the most intelligent person around. He strolled up and down the ice in his huge grey-green parka, looking out from the fur with deep brown monkey-wise eyes in a face that does not look so much lined or aged as well-used...
...rummaged in the drawer she talked about Arthur Hiller. "I don't really know what he's like as a director: all we've done is rehearsals. But he's about the funniest man I know. He's always joking. He's more easy-going than Larry Peerce [who directed Goodbye Columbus]. Not that-it's just that Arthur never gets flustered. I honestly don't know what the film will be like, though...