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...principal personification of his distrust, his key corrective agent, as well as Grass's most famous character, is Oskar the dwarf, the protagonist of his first novel, The Tin Drum. The book sold more than 1,500,000 copies around the world (about 600,000 in the U.S.), as appalled and fascinated readers in 16 languages absorbed the dwarf's devastating, knee-high view of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Oskar's "sing-scream" could shatter glass. His magic drum carried him back and forth in time. One of his best tricks was breaking up Nazi rallies...
Says Director Paul Almond: "He's so different in every role that people who have seen him several times cannot recognize him later." In Interlude, with Oskar Werner, Sutherland played a bumbling family friend; in Joanna, a fading, dying aristocrat; in The Split, a hired killer; in The Dirty Dozen, a fumbling draftee. The identity crisis will soon be overcome, however, with the release of M.A.S.H. this week and Start the Revolution Without Me next week. In M.A.S.H. he portrays a zany surgeon operating behind the lines during the Korean War, while in Revolution he doubles up on himself...
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner in John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold...
Actually, Alma appears to have been no helpless, trusting flower but a full-blooded coquette who ultimately found Oskar too demanding. When Kokoschka marched off to war in 1914, even he felt a certain sense of relief. ("It was very exhausting," he was later heard to say. "I had to climb into her room at night.") By the time he came back, Alma had become the wife of Walter Gropius, the German architect, whom she subsequently divorced in order to live with and eventually marry Franz Werfel, the novelist...
...Oskar, the memory lingered on. Four years after their separation, Alma heard that he had acquired a life-size doll that was painted to look like her. She reported: "The doll always lay on the sofa. For days on end Kokoschka would lock himself in and talk to no one but the doll. At last, he had me where he wanted me: helpless in his hand, a docile, mechanical tool." But she too remembered, and kept the fans always with her as affectionate mementos until her death in Manhattan...