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Nonetheless, there is strong suspicion that Brezhnev's "illness" was more diplomatic than physical. TIME Moscow Correspondent John Shaw reported that Fahmy and Gamassy did not meet Brezhnev in a sanatorium but were driven in a high-speed, police-escorted convoy to Brezhnev's hunting lodge at Zavidovo, about 80 miles north of Moscow...
...Alec Guinness is rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and doing it cautiously, for his February 1976 television performance with Genevieve Bujold in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The show's sponsor, Hallmark Cards, is still aching from the karate chop rendered unto Winston Churchill by Richard Burton on the eve of his starring role in The Gathering Storm. Shaw wrote that Caesar "bought men with words," but Sir Alec, talking about the play, sounded like a translation from Latin: "Anything that is reasonably civilized is likely to have an underlying wit." Somewhat...
...quite orthodox Christian theology that miracles are not meant to be simply marvels. That sort of thing, accepted as a commonplace in the 1st century world, was left to pagan magicians. A miracle, rather, is understood as a sign of God's power to heal and save. George Bernard Shaw put it slightly differently. "A miracle," he wrote, "is an event which creates faith...
...major characters, the ones for whom Shaw wrote, are Mark Mosca and Bonnie Brewster here and they both live up to every expectation of Shaw's. The roles demand a lot of nuance from their actors--facial expressions and the slightest gestures must be just right--and both are admirable. Mosca has a certain half-smile that he can turn into a scowl as easily as a self-congratulatory smirk. Although his rages somehow seem more passionate than Napoleon probably was, the whole play seems to support that kind of style. After all, Shaw needed to build a rapport between...
Bonnie Brewster is a match for Mosca's bravado. The way the strange lady shifts the burden of guilt to Napoleon demands a sort of subtle feminine guile that just doesn't come through in Shaw's words, something impossible to describe really. That's one of the attractions of the play--it's almost as if Shaw were testing the acting abilities of his two favorite performers; whoever acted better would convince the audience that he or she had won in this battle of the minds...