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Though best known as a film actor (Topkapi, Spartacus), playwright (Romanoff and Juliet) and radio and TV wit ("NATO? Six nations in search of an enemy!"), Peter Ustinov is also an old hand at opera. Over the past decade he has staged one-acters by Puccini, Ravel and Schonberg at Covent Garden, and in 1968 he directed a successful new version of Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Hamburg State Opera. Until that possible day when he sings and acts all the parts in Wagner's Ring cycle, Ustinov's most ambitious operatic venture will...
Marriage Revealed. Peter Ustinov, 51, Britain's bearish author, director, raconteur and two-time Academy Award winner for acting (Spartacus in 1960, Topkapi in 1964); and Helene du-Laud-Allemans, French-born journalist; he for the third time, she for the first; on June 17 on Corsica. In declining to give his bride's age, Ustinov cracked: "She is younger than I am, but not so young as to make marriage to an elderly gentleman ridiculous...
...Spartacus. Says Roddy McDowall, 1who played Cornelius in two of the movies and who plays the simian Spartacus in the upcoming one: "Now I know why monkeys hate people. When I get dressed up that way, everybody stares and points and yells, and you have no identity. You feel helpless...
...Spartacus. Kirk Douglas. directed by Stanley Kubrick. 9. May 14. Chan...
Divorced. Peter Ustinov, 50, author, raconteur and the only Briton ever to win two Academy Awards for acting (for Spartacus in 1960 and Topkapi in 1964); by Suzanne Cloutier, 44, a French Canadian onetime actress; after 17 years of marriage, three children; in Lausanne, Switzerland...