Word: lester
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Economic specialist Lester E. Gordon has been named by President Bok to direct the University's new Institute for International Development, beginning June...
Screenplay by TINA and LESTER PINE...
...with his first film in five years, Lester has returned to light farce and good fortune. In its first ten days of release in the U.S., Lester's new version of Alexandre Dumas' classic The Three Musketeers has brought in more than $3.5 million-a hefty indication that what audiences bloody well want to see is sheer entertainment. Meticulously constructed, broadly funny and relatively chaste, The Three Musketeers is a film for the whole family, and one that is not about children or animals...
Reed), Porthos (Frank Finlay), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) and D'Artagnan (Michael York). But Lester has added to their motto, "All for one and one for all," his own realistic coda: "And every man for himself." His musketeers are mercenaries, albeit loyal ones, and their adventures occur on the mud-puddled roads and in the filthy rooms of 17th century France...
...Romping. Lester's film has all this and more-sophisticated satire, opulent costumes, crashing swordplay, and a feast of historical fact-noblemen sniff clove-studded oranges as they walk through grimily Hogarthian streets; the King plays chess on a lawn-drawn board, with the palace dogs his four-footed chess pieces. Within this lovingly recreated world, Lester's musketeers are off and romping through an audacious barrage of pratfalls, sight gags, tottering demises and improbable acrobatics reminiscent of silent comedies...