Word: regaling
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Some actors never escape that first big part. Take Yul Brynner, for instance, who keeps time-warping back to his regal role in The King and I. Now touring in a new musical, Odyssey, in which he stars as Odysseus, Brynner has had his secretary send prospective hotels a list of his accommodation needs. Among his demands: "King-size bed in master bedroom (one mattress only, not two). [Room] must be utterly blacked out so as not a sliver of light can enter ... Suite must be immaculate ... Accommodations cannot be within one floor of conventioneers ... A gross of extra wooden...
...prelude to a film that for the rest of its length is nothing but people talking at each other. Next Lumet shows us his cast assembling from all over the world to board the Orient Express at Istanbul. There's the involuntary shudder of pleasure when you recognize a regal Vanessa Redgrave sailing through a crowd of Turkish peddlers, as Michael York and Jacqueline Bisset airily overturn a huge cart of oranges and step up into their carriage. Best of all, the Orient Express itself billows out steam that becomes a cloud of suspicion and hidden motives; it pulls...
...King Saud produced 54 girls and 52 boys. Faisal has had eight sons and six daughters by four wives, two of whom he divorced many years ago, while another died. He and remaining Wife Iffat have been married nearly 40 years. The King as a result serves as regal paterfamilias to 3,000 Saud princes and 2,000 royal women from four generations...
Between state banquets in the South Seas and his more serious duties with the Royal Navy, Britain's Prince Charles has found lime for yet another avocation, that of literary critic. Writing for Punch, the satirical English weekly, Charles offers some regal praise for portly Comic Harry Secombe, veteran of Ihe BBC's Goon Show and author of the recently published Twice Brightly. Freely admitting his "hopeless bias" in Secombe's favor, the rookie reviewer disclosed to his readers that he "was shaken with spasms of helpless mirth al frequent intervals" over Secombe's novel...
This is the adamantly delirious saga of Queen Christina of Sweden, a role once played by Garbo and now fallen, thanklessly, to Ullmann. She is wise enough not to try to capture Garbo's regal mystery. Ullmann instead goes after Christina's hobbled psyche and knotted libido. The script, however, does not necessarily move in the same direction as the leading actress. Indeed, it gives her very little to go on at all. Scenarist Ruth Wolff furnishes Christina with a mother who twists heads off dolls and recommends the presence of a dwarf during pregnancy. Christina...