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...Emperor’s New Clothes (June 14): With a veteran TV director and novice screenwriters, this dodgy enterprise stars Ian Holm in this Prince and the Pauper affair. As Napoleon, he escapes from prison late in life and heads to France to reclaim his throne, leaving a double in his place (also Holm). But drama and wholesome highbrow romance derail his plans...
...behind the words. A simple invitation to sit down can become a dangerous contest for the upper hand. That's what makes him so tantalizing, and so uncomfortable. "His choice of words is so specific," says the actress Lindsay Duncan, who created the role of Prue in Celebration. Ian Holm, who is currently starring in The Homecoming - and also had a different role, Lenny, in the original 1965 production - agrees. "The language is pared down until every word has immense power," he says. "He relishes every phrase. Pinter is the best playwright in the English language...
...British theater is unfair, even if he did turn down a knighthood from Prime Minister John Major saying, "I would not accept such recognition from a Conservative government." "He's passionate, with a very short fuse," says Hall, "but he's also extremely warm and kind." Ian Holm recalls starring in Moonlight in 1993. The night the author attended, nobody dared laugh at the jokes. "He couldn't understand it," remembers Holm. "And his wife [author Antonia Fraser] said, 'Harold, they're scared of you.' 'Me?' he replied in amazement. 'But I'm Mr. Cuddles...
...Joseph Mitchell (Tucci), a revered New Yorker writer, published an article about Joe Gould (Ian Holm), a Greenwich Village Bohemian who claimed to be writing a history of the world millions of words long. Twenty-two years later, Mitchell admitted that Gould's manuscript, except for a few fragments, didn't exist. Thereafter Mitchell could be heard typing in his office every day, but he never published another word. There's a great story here, but Tucci's literate, civilized, wistful movie lacks savage impulse and refuses to show how mutual exploitation led to minor tragedy...
Higgins Professor of Chemistry Richard H. Holm says that it is essential that students attend lecture in order to preserve the character of the class...