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...kindly, yet determined sensibilities of a rural Southern lawyer. The actor has moved north to Gettysburg, Pa., for his next role, in The Blue and the Gray, an eight-hour CBS TV mini-series to be aired next March. Queuing up in a distinguished line that includes Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook, Peck, 65, is taking up stovepipe and chin whiskers to portray Abraham Lincoln. "I'm in seven scenes," says Greg, "but I only get to speak in five of them. That's because in the other two, I'm dead...
Surrounded by youthful cast members from the film Annie, including Newcomer Aileen Quinn, 10, Veteran Director John Huston, 75, seemed as pleased as Daddy Warbucks during a Dow Jones upswing. The screen version of the Broadway hit was his first attempt at anything musical since guiding his father, Actor Walter Huston, through a jig in the 1948 classic Treasure of Sierra Madre. "And that," John admits, "was his own choreography." The Annie youngsters were just as professional. Says Huston: "If you understand kids, they never disappoint...
Directed by John Huston Screenplay by Evan Jones and Yabo Yablonsky...
...individuals lost in private fantasies-into a sports crowd, in which singular preoccupations are submerged in communal joy as the home team is cheered on to a transcendence everyone shares. With Pelé doing wondrous tricks on field, and Bill Conti's huge score blasting away underneath John Huston's superb blending of game action with the stadium's increasingly delirious response to it, Victory achieves its goal. Anyone who does not find himself yelling along with the extras should probably have stayed home with his Proust and bitters...
...actors worry about what winds up on the cutting-room floor after a film has been shot. Albert Finney, 44 (Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express), got the worst over with first. For his role as Multi-millionaire Daddy Warbucks in the film Annie, directed by veteran John Huston, Finney had his sandy hair shorn, lock, shock and cowlick. Said he afterward: "I've heard that the first thing a woman notices about a man is his hair." Finney, who will get $1 million for five months of shooting, need not worry about such a hairbrained notion...