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...well as writing.RR: Your thesis wasn’t enough work?CLB: Well, it certainly would have been enough on its own. But this was much more fun than writing that anyway.RR: Do you have a favorite part of the play?CLB: One of my favorites is when the soldier first enters. So much comes out of nowhere, and I think we’ve done a good job with the technical aspects, with video and lighting. I don’t even know how to describe it. It goes into slow motion. I really enjoy watching that every time.RR...
...misanthropic conviction. He's one of those second-tier stars who has generally not been treated well by Hollywood. But whether he's called upon to play mulish, churlish or just to do some hard-charging action, we always sense an underlying decency in him - he has a good soldier quality that can be very appealing. In a way, his work is emblematic of the movie as a whole. There's nothing world shattering about Smart People. No one is ever going to call it a "must see" movie. But it is a trim, intelligent, reasonably amusing little movie. Call...
...Best Actor). Truth to tell, Ben-Hur was long and logy, but it got the actor his finest role in his best film. El Cid is up there with Lawrence of Arabia in the epic empyrean: passionate, eloquent, with a visual and emotional grandeur. As the 11th century soldier seeking peace with Spain's large Muslim minority, Heston gave heroic heft to a pacifist warrior. At the end, the Cid, close to death, orders that his body be strapped to his horse and carried out to battle so that his presence will put fear into the enemy--a ripe metaphor...
...describe the early conduct of the war in the most devastating terms, even as they debated where to go from here and what it would take to get there. This was war and remembrance in three-part harmony. Above all, the doubt and division toll the bell for the soldier whose valor, at least, was invulnerable...
...full citation was read, Bush's eyes narrowed and glimmered, then his face reddened and shook as the tears fell, and it was all he could do to keep his hands at his sides, until he could not any longer and put an arm around the fallen soldier's mother...