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Director John Huston, as recalled by Ray Bradbury...
...ORIGINAL MOBY-DICK A white Leviathan played the title role. In the 1956 film the part was taken by a large piece of plastic. In Ray Bradbury's 27th book, John Huston plays the elusive quarry...
...Huston's ego is commensurate with the whale's body: "You ever figure, kid, how much the Beast is like me? The hero plowing the seas, plowing women left and right, off round the world and no stops?" No brakes is more like it. Although Huston poses as a 19th century squire, he is actually a very modern con man, incessantly flagellating or flattering Bradbury into an inhuman schedule. When the script is accepted, the director will unceremoniously grab 50% of the screen credit...
...addition to Robbins' splendid portrayal as Mill, Altman scores a coup by getting nearly one hundred stars (with names like Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis, Cher, Nick Nolte and Angelica Huston) to act in his movie for scale pay (which was in turn donated to charity). It speaks well of Altman's prestige among actors...
...Deep (Dead Calm), with Laurence Harvey and Jeanne Moreau. Around the same time he completed a 40-min., stripped-down (no Portia) version of The Merchant of Venice, but somebody stole the sound track. The Other Side of the Wind, a made-in-Hollywood story starring John Huston, reached the stage of a 2 1/2-hr. work print. But in 1979 the film, partly financed by an Iranian company, was seized by the Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution. Don Quixote, which Welles shot in spare moments over three decades, has been edited by director Jesus Franco and will be shown next...