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...screen is close to a miracle; that it turns out to be another of TV's pretty but plodding historical sagas is less surprising. With its lavish sets (including the 17th century Kremlin) and the proverbial cast of thousands, the eight- hour, $27 million epic looks spectacular. Maximillian Schell, the most prominent of four actors who play Peter, has moments of leonine power, and Vanessa Redgrave is striking as his treacherous sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard and Mel Ferrer--is lost in the pageantry. Edward Anhalt's script...
...temperature change. After shivering on frigid sets, the cast finally obtained two 54-seat buses, where they changed costumes by retreating behind cloths strung up like curtains. Then last February, a month before he was scheduled to leave to direct a production at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, Schell was laid low by a fever for nearly four weeks. Torn between his Berlin commitment and the unfinished movie, Schell dragged himself out of bed to shoot a few more scenes in Leningrad before departing. "Sometimes," he groans, "I felt half unconscious...
Harvard--behind Peter Wagner's first place finish in the B division that lifted the skippers into second place behind Boston University--turned in a strong performance at the Penobscot Bay Open in Castine, Maine, and qualified for the Schell Trophy regatta held at MIT in late October...
...Crimson's success at the Schell Trophy qualified it for the prestigious Atlantic Coast Championships held at Navy in early November, where Harvard placed a disappointing eighth...
...best collegiate teams from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, along with the top two from the South-Atlantic, participated at Coast Guard. The Crimson's second-place finish in the Schell Trophy three weeks ago qualified it for the event...