Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...iron-rimmed Nazi dentist in the Marathon Man and you've good example of why people label this great man the most versatile actor who's ever lived. Olivier is on-screen more than anyone else in the The Boys from Brazil, and he hasn't had a movie role this large since Sleuth in 1972. If for no other reason, you should see this film, to see him biting Gregory Peck, hissing at Uta Hagen, or grimacing at Rosemary Harris' attempt to seduce him. (Remember the film of Uncle Vanya, where he lusted after...
...hasty tour of six Arab capitals, Assad laconically submitted to an essentially meaningless compromise, under which part of the Syrian forces besieging East Beirut would be withdrawn. Lebanese troops would be allowed to help patrol the bridges linking Beirut to the Christian areas in the north - their first active role in the recent fighting...
...people who cooked up this thrill-less thriller are not entirely incompetent: they have brought Robert Morley back to the screen. In the role of a haughty gourmet-magazine editor, Morley puts on a hilarious show: He pats his gargantuan stomach as lovingly as a child might fondle a stuffed Teddy bear. He raises his bushy eyebrows so high that one expects them to graze the ceiling. He turns the mere act of getting up from lunch into a dainty comic ballet. Ordered by his doctor to lose weight-half his weight-Morley adamantly refuses. "I have eaten...
...minded Yugoslav partisan about to help some British soldiers blow up a bridge. The film: Force 10 from Navarone, based on a novel by Alistair MacLean. Says Bach: "I enjoyed being the only woman among all those simpatici men." So simpatica was Bach that the screenwriter built up her role. In fact, Author MacLean, on a visit to the set, showed some surprise that his movie had a female lead...
Little understood outside legal circles, this role is crucial to shaping the law. By rejecting two-thirds of all the cases the Government could appeal, McCree acts as a gatekeeper for the overburdened courts. In effect, he decides which issues involving the Federal Government-from the meaning of an agency regulation to the meaning of the Constitution-need to be finally resolved and which issues can be left to simmer. Last week, for example, McCree okayed a Government appeal on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration, which is trying to establish that it has the right to investigate makers...