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When Ricardo Montalban, 61, the courtly Mr. Roarke of TV's Fantasy Island, goes home and hangs up his impeccably pressed white suit, what does a man who caters to dreams change into? Perhaps his own fantasy is to doff his fastidious mien, let his hair sprout, and lounge around in the tattered haute couture of an intergalactic hitchhiker? In Paramount's $10 million space epic Star Trek II, Montalban does just that. He plays the diabolic Khan, a villainous android who escapes exile on a nightmarish planet but not the embraces of two comely space maidens...
...Well, I only played Vegas once, in 1972. But the two places are interchangeable--like Ricardo Montalban and Fernando Lamas...
...that as much as 30% of the bloc would assure them victory in Texas. Still, Ruben Bonilla, president of the pro-Carter League of United Latin-American Citizens, cautions that Reagan is too conservative for most Hispanics. "If we wanted an actor," he quips, "we would vote for Ricardo Montalban...
Massive Betrayals. All this allusiveness nearly swamps Rosales' story. Moreover, Day often falls into a "Hey, meester" rendering of how Spanish might be written if it were English; the result sounds like Ricardo Montalban reading aloud from the works of Ernest Hemingway. By inserting (for flavor) so many Spanish words and (for sense) their English translations, Day sets up a rhythm with all the verve of a language primer. Characters talk as if they were constantly flipping back to the glossary to check their meanings...
...devil, Edward Mulhare is an urbane charmer, and Paul Henreid's Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing hypocrisy and cant. If all our minds are freer of the pollution of smug platitudes, it is because Shaw, with his Jovian laughter, helped to clear them. -T.E.Kalem