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...Countess from Hong Kong, his first film since 1957's A King in New York, had its world premiere in London, the critics emerged in a rattle of pans. "The heart of the film lies pickled in the formaldehyde of the Thirties," wrote the Sun, and the Daily Sketch mourned: "It croaks and creaks like an aged mechanical toy." Director Chaplin, who played only a cameo role in Countess and left the acting to Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando, said that he couldn't care less about the reviews: "I still think it's a great film...
Nameless Presence. In Dewart's brief sketch of a theology for the future, the church might no longer talk of God as a Trinity, since the terminology-three persons in one nature-is also applicable only to finite beings. Nor will God be considered omnipotent. Platonic thinking led the scholastics to envision a God who stood over and against nature. The idea of God as a transcendental presence implies to Dewart that God is to be envisioned as a reality found in and through nature, as the shaping force of history. And in so far as the word...
...interesting works: an uncommissioned portrait of John F. Kennedy that Jamie has been working on for the last four months. Since he never met the late President, Jamie has been painting from photographs and movies, and has made several trips to Washington from Chadds Ford, Pa., in order to sketch Senator Ted Kennedy, "because friends told me he looks like his brother. It's much better working from life," said Jamie. "A half-hour with the man would be worth all the pictures...
...clockmaker, and his father, a mechanical engineer who was sent to Scotland from South Bend, Ind., to manage the Singer sewing machine factory in Clydebank. Rickey also showed an early facility for drawing, and while at Balliol College, Oxford, he used to cross the street to sketch at the Ruskin School of Drawing...
Cabaret's ambitions are loftier than those of most musicals: it attempts to sketch an era by playing a personal drama against a political one. But the attempt gets lost in a mire of timeless musical cliches, and we are left with a peculiarly ungripping love story...