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...acre estate was forfeited to Henry VIII in 1529 when the Cardinal's fortunes waned. The King quickly enlarged the palace, moved in and cavorted there with five of his six wives. With the accession of William III and Mary II in 1689 came a major renovation, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. After George II died, in 1760, the 1,000- room palace ceased to be a home to sovereigns, and it was opened to the public...
ALEC GUINNESS MADE a career of bringing dignity to mediocrity. Although a contemporary and a rightful companion of the great British actors of this century, no one ever seems to mention Sir Alec in their company. Certainly he doesn't lack exposure-Guinness made more films than any of them with the exception of Lord Lawrence Olivier, who these days will take any part that doesn't require him to move much--but his unique talents by their very nature doom him to relative obscurity...
...Sir Alec was a participant in the great age of British theater, when it was populated by giants who held the stage without apparent effort. While Brando was sweating or mumbling to himself for two hours before each performance, Olivier could slap on a putty nose and blow the house away. The people Guinness describes are not quite larger than life but simply more grand than you and I are used to. John Gielgud really is as acerbic and sophisticated as he is on screen, and Ernie Kovacs was indeed the funniest person Guinness ever met. During the making...
...aficionados, this book will be a disappointment. He spends only a frustratingly short chapter discussing a film career which has lasted 40 years, and there are only a few paragraphs strewn throughout the book addressing the craft of his acting. If you really want to spend an evening with Sir Alec, you are better off renting The Lady Killers and Kind Hearts and Coronets for your...
...enough to have him as our Attorney General, but to have him given a medal by a branch of Harvard University named for John F. Kennedy!-"have you no shame, Sir?" George Wald Higgins Professor of Biology Emiritus