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Sutherland's metamorphosis into Casanova begins each day with 3½ hours of makeup application, which supplies him with a Romanesque nose and jutting jaw (Fellini has filmed him almost entirely in profile). These details resemble those in portraits of the real man. But as usual, Fellini goes further. Sutherland's scalp has been shaved clean for three inches up from the hairline and his eyes lined into a definite slant. The result is a highly stylized, almost Kabuki look that conforms amazingly to a sketch of Casanova drawn by Fellini-who was once a cartoonist -months before...
...Right to the Jaw...
...both by his increasing deafness and the injuries that had marred his looks. Three air crashes had mangled his nose and cheeks. While flying over Siberia on a globe-circling flight in 1938, Hughes had had to breathe oxygen for many hours through an aluminum tube; that froze his jaw, causing a bone disease that slowly eroded his profile. Still, he remained a reasonably handsome man, but unfortunately he failed to think...
This can-do, get-things-done, down-to-earth fellow they get to replace you at Worth--with his square jaw and his glinty eyes behind the steel rims--he may not be as capable of facing the problem as you are (you were really very good at facing the problem), but he'll succeed (he'll so to speak, be able to 'solve' it) where you didn't, because he won't have that problem at all. What the new man will do--what any efficient bureaucrat would do--is shape the problem not so there's no answer...
Replete with rock jaw, twinkling eyes, and a booming voice that belongs in a Buck Rogers serial, the mild-mannered, sweatsuited track coach is slightly larger than life...