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...been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries removed, that is. Moore, 22, plays Mathilda, an independent young medieval miss who disguises herself as a knight to go in search of Richard the Lionhearted. Actually, the movie is her second screen appearance. At seven, she did a small part in an episode of her father's TV series The Persuaders. "We are an acting family," she notes proudly. Pater Roger agrees and is "delighted" with...
...Soviet naval forces from the Mediterranean if the U.S. did likewise. The ploy was scarcely plausible. The American commitment to protect Western interests in the Mediterranean is considered vital and stretches back 40 years. Gorbachev's offer, said one official, was in effect asking the U.S. to sacrifice a knight for a pawn. On Saturday, Gorbachev went still further by calling for an early summit with Reagan in Europe to discuss his proposed ban on testing nuclear weapons. But Donald Regan pointed out that the Soviet leader had already agreed to a summit in a different locale. "The United States...
...just out of fear, but because he doesn't believe in its reward. "It's all so superficial," he proclaims with annoying insistence. So Lucas seems destined to remain a loner, capturing bugs for the school terrarium. But then, the inevitable happens. Lucas falls in love. As a dubious knight in shining armor, Lucas must fight for his fair maiden in the dread land of superficiality...
Brenda Wyatt (Roxanne Hart) is MacLeod's modern lover. She figures out MacLeod's identity, but is otherwise merely the fair maiden in constant distress, waiting for her four-century old knight in shining armour to rescue...
...says. During the past half-century or so, he has played dozens of memorable roles: a Prime Minister (Disraeli), a Pope (Innocent III), a King (Charles I), a prince (Arabia's Faisal), a fanatical colonel (Nicholson, in The Bridge on the River Kwai), a mad dictator (Hitler), a Jedi knight (Obi-wan Kenobi) and a spymaster (George Smiley in TV adaptations of John le Carre's espionage sagas). Now, at 71, he has added another role to that impressive list: author of one of the best show-business memoirs of recent years, a witty, wise and consistently entertaining account...