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Sometimes, by no coincidence, a celebrity partner may attract celebrity friends, who in turn attract a crowd. Actress Helena Kallianiotes, owner of Los Angeles' Helena's, has been known to serve her specials to her Five Easy Pieces costar and suspected silent partner Jack Nicholson. The joint is now about as in as any place off the eaten path gets. And if they are not part of the show themselves, show-biz proprietors know how to put one on. "Eating has become the evening's entertainment for people," says Director-Producer Bob Giraldi. He conceived his 15-month-old Positano...
...Ghorbal, went on a goodwill tour of six American states last month to boost his country's image among travel writers and politicians. Governments have improved security in recent months, but the displays of armed force in some cases may have frightened off more tourists than terrorists. Says Connie Nicholson, an administrator at the American College in Paris: "When you see three or four cops with rifles slung over their shoulders, you're more scared than when you actually hear about the bombs...
...great roles were bit players shoved center stage, who without power or grace had to make do with the peculiar strengths of the insignificant. The confused inventor in The Man in the White Suit, the "fubsy" robber in The Lavender Hill Mob, and most especially Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, are all men who have greatness thrust upon them. Olivier would have made Col. Nicholson a hero; Guinness kept him a man. It is fitting, somehow, that after a great and varied career--one which won him an Oscar and knighthood--most movie-goers remember...
...great gossip, and it is impossible not to pay attention to what he 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...
...Mather and Kirkland mini-MGM's tie in the prize for the most embarrasing movie moment. Paul C. Gallagher '86, president of the Mather film society, recalls the group's most traumatic experience--spending $300 to show a Jack Nicholson film, The Passenger. Only four or five people showed up to see the movie and the society suffered a loss of $290 for that night...