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...Nonsense," expostulated the consulting detective. "I annihilated the Napoleon of crime at the Reichenbach Falls. No, no, Watson, heroes may be summoned from the annals of fiction, but this villain rises from reality. Whoever made those erasures is an intelligent, living, breathing human. Well, living and breathing, anyway...
Actor Rod Steiger, 48, has made a name for himself in strongman roles as Napoleon in Waterloo, Al Capone in Al Capone and the redneck police chief in In the Heat of the Night. For his latest megalomaniac, Steiger has shaved his head and lost 45 Ibs. in order to work with Italian Director Carlo Lizzani on a movie (being shot in English) tentatively called Mussolini... the Last Act. Newsreel flashbacks of the real Duce strutting and posturing at the height of his power will be interspersed with scenes of Steiger playing Mussolini during the last four days...
...Peace. A nine-chapter BBC adaptation of Tolstoy's massive novel that runs a total of 14 and a half hours. Part one introduces the lengthy list of characters while war with Napoleon brews offstage. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...
...been calculated that if books continue to be written about Samuel Beckett at the present rate then by the end of the century their sum will rival that devoted to the top figures in world publishing history: Lincoln, Napoleon and Christ...
...recital of debts, contracts, mistresses, houses and more debts without a sense of the relish with which this complicated and violent genius conducted his messy life. It may be that as a biographer Pritchett is too much of a smart, admiring English shopkeeper to do justice to this Napoleon of the pen. A little awe might have helped. ∙ Martha Duffy