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...election results were scarcely in before a rumor flew that Humphrey was about to be dispatched to Europe to mend NATO fences and to talk with Charles de Gaulle. Nothing has come of that. Next came a rumor that Humphrey would visit India and Pakistan and help patch up their differences...
...somehow it was different in an 80-bed hospital serving 100,000 potential patients, particularly since the chief surgeon also had to patch broken tie rods on his truck-cam-ambulance with vines, build cookhouses, make house calls on a motor bike, and still handle at least one major operation...
...movie about Churchill, even a standard patch-up of newsreel clips and familiar speeches, could fail to be moving and dramatic, for he was one of the few consciously theatrical performers in the history of democratic government. His grave and measured voice, somehow made even more sonorous by his lisp, and his majestic, defiant prose gave each of his countrymen a sense of historic purpose and helped keep alive a reassuring belief in the possibility of individual heroism throughout the mass slaughter of World War II. To see a film clip of, say, Neville Chamberlain...
...Finest Hours, Jack LeVien, who produced the film, and Peter Baylis, who directed it, have opted for something far better than the standard patch-up. Their most startling achievement is to have made a successful color film about a man whose active political life was largely over before color photography came into general use. The black-and-whiteness of other historical documentaries distorts the visual history they are supposed to record: the human eye could see color in 1925, even if the movie camera could...
...restage it," Nichols would say when they hit a foggy patch. "No, let me rewrite it," Simon would insist. Next month Simon and Nichols will be working together again, on Simon's new play The Odd Couple, which will star Art Carney and Walter Matthau. "It's about two guys who are having trouble with their wives," says Nichols. "You never see the wives; you just see the other girls, just like in real life...