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...between sports and show business approach invisibility. The networks underwrite both on the same artistic basis. How do they draw? What is the cost per 1,000 to the advertisers? Athletes and actors are interchangeable on commercials. O.J. Simpson earns $1 million for telling us what car to rent; Rex Harrison earns $ 1 million for telling us what car to buy. Our old preoccupation with what Clark Gable was paid at Metro has been replaced by speculation on Francis Tarkenton's net worth. Most significant, where the athlete once was an individual, scratching and drinking across a brevity...
...audition judge, Bert Challenor (Rex Robbins), holds the opposite view: "Any good comedian can lead an audience by the nose. But only in the direction they're going. And that direction is, quite simply, escape." The two who follow Challenor's advice win. The boy (Jonathan Pryce) who goes into a brilliantly pantomimed rage against two effigies of the upper middle class loses. What he epitomizes is about as funny as death, but Pryce's caustic honesty and formidable skill in playing the role mark a Broadway debut that is electric with life...
That caped cavalier in the knee boots and curls is Rex Harrison, all dressed up like French Minister Colbert in his current film Behind the Iron Mask. The picture, which is being made in Vienna, is based on the Alexandre Dumas story of rival twin brothers, swashbuckling musketeers and beautiful maidens. Among the maidens is Dutch-born Sylvia Kristel, whose face and other features graced the 1974 soft-porn picture Emmanuelle. This time Sylvia keeps her shirt on, however, which might account for Rex's gentlemanly critique of his costar. "I admire Miss Kristel for her education," he says...
French Political Scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel has described two of the main categories of leaders as dux, literally leader, and rex, literally ruler. Dux is the activist and innovator, often an inspirational type. Rex is the stabilizer or broker or manager...
Harvard Government Professor James Q. Wilson, 45, distinguished dux from rex this way: "There is the goal-setter, or the critic, the person who says, 'Follow me,' who prods, challenges. Then there is the executive or the facilitator who is less concerned with setting goals. He is especially sensitive to the concerns of individuals. These two qualities are, for most people, incompatible. Yet some people can [be both...