Word: ringers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glossy, twittering movie that poses as a psychological horror story. Leonora, an over-the-hill prostitute (Elizabeth Taylor), is accosted by Cencion a London bus. The girl invites her home-where Leonora discovers an eerily familiar face in a photograph. Cenci's dead mum was a ringer for the prostitute. And, vice versa, Cenci reminds the prostitute of her daughter, dead lo these seven years. The two settle down symbiotically in Cenci's gloomy, Edwardian mansion. Along comes Cenci's randy stepfather...
Doctor Zhivago made him a star, but to Omar Sharif it was just another Hollywood moneymaker. The film that the Egyptian movie hero is now making in Hollywood, Che!, is quite another thing. With his scraggly beard and cigar, Omar is a ringer for Ernesto Guevara and really feels for him. "Che was a just man fighting for a good cause," says he. "If he had not used violence, he would have been one of the great men of the world...
...house, groaning and sighing with the weight of ages, becomes a mausoleum for her, and she drifts aimlessly from room to room, her wide brown eyes masking dark fantasies. She meets a boy, but he only adds to the uneasiness. A live ringer for her dead kin, he has this strange way of gazing at her. Is it love or a grim beckoning from the beyond? No firm answers are forthcoming, as past and present finally collide in a wild, whirling scene that ends not with a bang but a whaa...
...hand at the game. He patiently drilled his musicians for the day when he could talk his neighbors, the New York Philharmonic, into a friendly match. So there he was zinging in the first ball while Umpire Skitch Henderson scrutinized his style. Even though the Philharmonic had a ringer in sometime triangle player George Plimpton, Stokowski's sluggers drummed out a 15-10 victory. "They're younger," allowed a Philharmonic musician. Not so, snapped the maestro: "When we play a game...
...girl (Uta Levka) is ugly, and her boyfriend (well christened Claude Ringer) is a crashing bore...