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...Ghana. His motorcade arrives at a local market, and he discovers, much to his delight, that the Ghanaian national soccer team is practicing nearby. So he strolls over to where a crowd has gathered, hoping to catch a few minutes of the scrimmage. It is not possible. The mob erupts when they see him, shouting and dancing. Annan's security guards quickly press him back into his car. They try to drive away, but the thick, gleeful crowd has the cars glued in place. The Ghanaians risk trampling one another in their eagerness to get close to Annan. "Hey, father...
...embraced him, in Guinness's grand postwar decade of Ealing Studios comedies--both as that Candidean innocent, the creator of a miracle fabric in The Man in the White Suit, and as the mousy banker who nearly pulls off the legendary Eiffel Tower paperweight caper in The Lavender Hill Mob. It saw him locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley in the two '80s mini-series Tinker...
...falling in love b) "Daniel-san" in Karate Kid IX: Russian Roulette c) taking in local sights after the G-8 summit in Japan d) regretting promise to crack down on the Russian mob...
...that career perhaps fall into two categories, both after the war (in which Guinness briefly served) and neatly divided by the Atlantic. In England he did classics of British bumble-wit like "Kind Hearts and Coronets," "The Ladykillers," "The Man in the White Suit" and "The Lavender Hill Mob," in which Guinness's milquetoast banker waits his whole life for the perfect gold bullion theft. These were tiny movies, gems of the emotional slapstick at which he was a master...
...Hearing of Guinness's unrelenting modesty and bland wit, one is tempted to look for the actor's true self in some of the Ealing Studios comedies, perhaps "The Lavender Hill Mob" and its wan-on-the-outside hero, or the fabric wizard and social innocent of "The Man in the White Suit." But thinking that's Guinness up there onscreen is a mistake. He once said, "I try to get inside a character and project him - one of my own private rules of thumb is that I have not got a character until I have mastered exactly...