Word: remick
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (NBC, April 16-18, 9 p.m. EDT). Phileas Fogg, that globe-trotting Victorian gent, is back in a remake of the Oscar-winning 1956 film based on Jules Verne's novel. Pierce Brosnan, Lee Remick and Peter Ustinov head the proverbial all-star cast...
What will Nutcracker bring? Most likely a more conventionally fleshed-out story. While At Mother's Request focuses mainly on the murder and subsequent investigation, the NBC version will provide a fuller portrait of Frances' life (Lee Remick will play the role). It may even try to make some psychological sense out of the whole sordid affair. But for sheer perversity, At Mother's Request will be hard to beat...
...mysteriously strangled just after birth. But the script's forays into the realm of allegory place a heavy burden on its dramatic content. Agnes (Amanda Plummer), the nun on trial for the murder of her child, and her Mother Superior (Geraldine Page) together represent faith; Dr. Martha Livingstone (Lee Remick), the psychiatrist assigned by the court to the case, embodies reason. The problem with the play lies in its clumsy handling of so diametric a dramatic opposition Perhaps because Pielmeier himself was born and raised a devout Catholic, his writing openly favors faith over reason...
...Remick, despite her experience and usual excellence, represents the weak link in the cast. Perhaps the role of Dr. Livingstone provides insufficient depth and variation for a good characterization. In any case, Remick's "scientific" composure seems more a lack of acting than a lack of warmth. Remick's performance improves as Dr. Livingstone's personal involvement with the case increases, but her mannerisms remain stylized, false and some how jarringly over-bright...
...Omen at the Science Center is the film in which Gregory Peck proved that he too could stoop as low as any other good actor. With Lee Remick and some kid with three 6's on his scalp, The Omen did provide Hollywood with some rather ingenious ways of killing priests, photographers and nannies as it depicted the story of the son of Satan and his early years as a young rake...