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...would be interesting to know what Jed Harris and Francis I look like to have in spired Sir Laurence thusly...
...question the statement that the features of Olivier's Richard III were modeled "on the features of Broadway's Jed Harris and France's Francis I." Methinks I espied Sid Caesar peeking under the ebony locks...
Whatever the inadequacies, Olivier more than makes up for them. His Richard is an elemental force, the principle of evil itself. The feral face (modeled, Olivier says, on the features of Broadway's Jed Harris and France's Francis I) allures the eye as a great serpent might. And Richard's ruttishness, in the amazing scene of the widow's seduction, is a slimy, cold convulsion...
There were some off-the-air items of note: 1) Patterns, the hit Kraft TV Theater show written by Rod Serling (TIME, Jan. 24), is scheduled to become a movie produced by Broadway's Jed Harris; 2) TV Producer Lou Cowan depressed sensitive viewers by announcing that a new quiz called The $64,000 Question is being readied for June. The gimmick: a lucky contestant, by continuously doubling his stake, can run $1 to a maximum of $64,000. This will take weeks, and when the money gets big enough, the contestant will be imprisoned in a glass-enclosed...
...story goes on and on and Jed doesn't change but only gets more so, readers may begin to wish that the angry author were less so. As a man who once journeyed a long way with the Communists, but decisively broke with the comrades' ideals earlier than most reformed fellow-travelers, Author Dos Passos, now 58, at length starts to sound less like a social critic than a disappointed lover...