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...cast is singularly strident. As a pompous Middle European intellectual, Kenneth Mars mugs and drools in a manner that Jerry Lewis might find excessive. Madeline Kahn, who plays O'Neal's officious fianceé, rolls over her part like one of Patton's tanks. Liam Dunn is fitfully funny as a demented judge, but he too finally succumbs to the prevailing hysteria...
...hanker to make yet another movie? "Oh, the thought has entered the mind, but I know I can't do it," says the 61-year-old veteran of 50-odd films. But he adds: "I would have done anything in the world to play the title role in Patton," for which George C. Scott won a 1970 Academy Award. Another legendary general also appeals to the Governor: Douglas MacArthur. "When I think of the story that could be done on the same basis-coming to a close with that 'old soldiers never die' speech . . ." Old actors never...
...abroad. Under Geneen, ITT through a dizzying series of acquisitions has become a hotel operator (Sheraton), insurance seller (Hartford Fire), car renter (Avis), baker (Continental Baking), homebuilder (Levitt), as well as a maker of pulp and cellulose and a major shareholder in Comsat. Overseas it has been rolling like Patton's Third Army into cosmetics, food products, auto parts and construction materials. Last year it employed almost 400,000 people in 67 countries. They generated sales of $7.3 billion, excluding Chilean and insurance operations, and profits of $337 million...
Dynasty and Power. Coppola was an established screenwriter (he won an Oscar last year for co-authoring Patton), but he had an indifferent record as a director (Finian's Rainbow, You're a Big Boy Now). Nevertheless, Evans had faith in Coppola's ability, and attached particular importance to the fact that he was Italian-American. Says Evans: "He knew the way these men in The Godfather ate their food, kissed each other, talked. He knew the grit." Coppola, deeply in debt, could have used an offer to direct traffic, let alone a movie like The Godfather...
...simplistic treatment of the Revolution and its causes, but the movie is basically fair, and probably harmless. In an interview with The New York Post several weeks ago, Schaffner said that he lost more weight during the filming of Nicholas and Alexandra (17 pounds) than during the making of Patton (10 pounds). Perhaps he was worried that instead of giving him an Oscar this year they will take last year's away and give it to someone else more deserving: Charlie Chaplin, perhaps...