Word: olivia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ecumenical cast. To portray Christ at various stages of his life, he has chosen a newborn Berber baby, a two-year-old Arab boy, a five-year-old Jewish lad and Actor Robert Powell, 29, an Anglican. For the Virgin Mary, the Roman Catholic director settled on Argentine-born Olivia Hussey, 23, who first starred in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet eight years ago. Her religious preferences? "This may sound a bit far out," she says, "but two years ago a medium told me that I had been the Virgin Mary in a previous life...
Malvolio is the primmest of puritans. He preens before the mirror of his self-approbation. "Holier than thou" drips from every syllable he speaks. He is thus terribly gullible when a trumped-up letter purports to disclose that the lady Olivia, whom he serves as a kind of steward, is desperately in love with him. Bedford purses his lips as if his mouth were pickled in brine. He walks with the gravity of a frozen penguin. His mien alternates between a mask of hauteur and a tickled-pink grin of uncontainable self-adulation. As an actor, he takes the treacherous...
...play is as implausible as ever, but rarely has it been given a production of such marvelously sustained enchantment. Duke Orsino (Stephen Macht) is bewitched by the lovely Countess Olivia (Marti Maraden). She, in turn, falls madly in love with Cesario, who is really the shipwrecked Viola (Kathleen Widdoes) in male disguise. Before the plot is piloted to safe harbor, there are mistaken identities to be resolved, twin brother and sister to be reunited, true love's partners to be mated, and the lowbrow comic shenanigans of that Tweedledum-Tweedledee pair Sir Toby Belch (Leslie Yeo) and Sir Andrew...
Tessa is the Dahls' eldest daughter since her sister Olivia died of encephalitis in 1962, and there is something wistful in her striving to be a star. She really believes "a woman's place is in the home and an acting career is not good for marriage," but she is not ready to settle down. Her parents are encouraging her independence. They recently bought a London apartment for her. But she does not want it known too quickly that she has stopped housekeeping for her boy friend, the Hon. Patrick Fisher, a rich young man about town. Show...
Died. Anatole Litvak, 72, Russian-born film director best known for the original version of Mayerling (1936), starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, and The Snake Pit (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1948), starring Olivia de Havilland, which was acclaimed as Hollywood's first realistic examination of insanity; in Neuilly, France...