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...Circle Game. The film espouses no ideology whatsoever, preferring to concentrate on the boy-meets-girl saga. Director Stuart Hagmann, making his film debut after a few years' training in television, seems to have decided that the dominant image of the film is Indians v. the wagon train, so he and his cinematographer lose not a single opportunity to have the camera track 360° around the principals. He stuffs the film with other round-and-round imagery (a carrousel, the pattern of the protesters on the floor) while the sound track drives the point home with constant repetitions...
Much is genuinely funny in Perera's saga of a guilt-ridden innocent abroad. Bendana has a mad. malapropriate sister, who feels "like a fish in Coca-Cola" instead of a fish out of water. He finds himself standing on the road before a brothel "tallying figures in his head, wondering uneasily if they would take a traveler's check." There are lapses, of course. Perera slumps toward collegiate humor or into yuks too obviously derived from the new school of American-Jewish humor. His story line suffers the common affliction of the picaresque novel, midsection...
...latest acknowledgment came this year in the U.S., where she has emerged as, of all things, the first sex symbol of educational television (if one ignores Julia Child). Susan is Fleur, the exquisite arch-bitch of The Forsyte Saga, a role for which she last week won an Emmy Award as the best actress in a dramatic series. In most of the 40-odd other countries that have been enthralled by the greatest soap opera ever filmed, Susan is already a major star. In Norway a mob of 60,000 turned out to see her-in a town of only...
...intelligent girl. And at once I was caught by her tremendous vivacity and the fact that she was very much a '20s figure, which was very important for Fleur." His casting choice was impeccable, for in every way she held her own in that top-class company. "The Saga," says Co-Star Eric Porter, "was her first opportunity to show her true merit and full range-love, hate, envy, remorse and so on-and she showed that she can be a sensitive, intelligent and deeply revealing actress...
After she finished Saga, Susan found her Frenchman. He turned out to be Pierre Granier-Deferre, who directed her first nude scene (with Charles Aznavour) in Paris in August and then married her. She now shuttles between a couple of cottages in Chelsea and an apartment in suburban Paris. France is for weekends and vacation, because it is about the only civilized country in the world where Susan has any privacy -Saga has not played there...