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...altitude where radar can track the craft. Then they fly it smack into the ocean. The thing sinks but does not flood, thanks to some watertight compartments Stewart has thoughtfully provided for his artwork. Everyone behaves predictably. Pilot Jack Lemmon is valiant and resourceful, older character people like Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Gotten are stoic and gallant, while the hysteric (Lee Grant) is hysterical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Misnomer | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...handles the impossible role of Jesus with considerable skill. The script enables him to present a complex personality who chats amiably with the rabbis on whether "the Sabbath is made for man," but who also swings a heavy club to smash the money-changers' booths in the Temple. Olivia Hussey, who at age 15 played Juliet for Zeffirelli, is a winsomely girlish Virgin Mary who suffers real labor pains and is the object of respect, though not veneration, during Jesus' lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Franco Zeffirelli's Classical Christ for Prime Time | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...Technicolor on a wide screen in my head, and I hear the characters speak every line of dialogue before I write it. All my heroes look like Clint Eastwood -I've had this absurd crush on him for years." Her heroines she imagines as Jacqueline Bisset or Olivia Newton-John. "I just write what comes to me. Sometimes I turn a passage in to Avon without rereading it. I'm just now learning to rewrite competently. But I could never do things to please critics or an intellectual coterie. I write to please ordinary people-I write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's Babies | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...expects to do at least ten to 20 more," notes Pamela Bellewood, star of Lang's new fly-by-fright flick. Titled Airport 77, the movie features Jimmy Stewart as a millionaire art collector, Bellewood as his daughter and the obligatory lineup of golden Hollywood oldies, including Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten. In this one, Stewart & Co. jet off with their art treasures on a jumbo junket to Palm Beach, only to learn that thieves have put sleep gas in the 747's ventilation system. When the big snooze hits, the big plane alights on a watery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 11, 1976 | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...born maiden with whom Rob ert Shaw, as the pirate leader, is naturally expected to carry on a fighting romance, is required to get into a duel with him. Presumably, that is something the athletic and liberated modern wom an can identify with, but it is a silly business. Olivia de Havilland could prove her fighting spirit with a word or a glance and not suffer even the tiniest rip in her bodice. Poor Bujold, on the other hand, must come close to being stripped to the waist by Shaw's rapier - a dishonorable dueling tactic that his gallant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sunken Galleon | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

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