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...London newspaper described it as "a mad final fling before the winter of our discontent." For one brief shining moment last week, Britain forgot its economic troubles and basked in the splendid and stirring pageantry of a royal wedding. Before 1,500 invited guests and a television audience of 500 million people round the world, Princess Anne, 23, Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, married her commoner cavalryman, Captain Mark Phillips, 25, in the Gothic splendor of Westminster Abbey...
...parking lot behind a blank-walled movie theater in Paramus, N.J., an ugly carwash building in Lorain, Ohio. Each photo is as carefully composed as a painting by Edward Hopper, and disappointment clearly shows in each. Turning to the great achievements of the past, Plowden finds little consolation. The splendid ferries and mighty iron bridges that he loves to photograph are obsolescent and vanishing. In Lordville, N.Y., he shows a once proud but now decaying house by some railroad tracks; it serves as a melancholy reminder of a grander and gentler...
This last quality has inspired his cast. Everyone is splendid, and Madeline Kahn gives a performance in depth of an intrinsically shallow soul that is almost certain to net her a Tony Award nomination. What animates the new theater management at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-whose first production this is - is love of the U.S. playwright, especially the young playwright of promise in his tough apprenticeship years. In offering that nourishing brand of love, Lincoln Center's new producer Joseph Papp has no peer...
...apparently wandered in from Cabaret still wearing his costume, impersonates the brother of Krogh's mistress (Hildegard Neil). There is much solemn and oblique conversation about impending crises, and the feeling prevails that the director, Peter Duffell, was rather too impressed with The Damned. There is, however, a splendid supporting performance by Michael Hordern as a quintessentially seedy journalist. If only the movie as a whole were as echt Greene as Hordern's characterization...
...rest of the movie is meticulously cast: Fredric March is a splendid Harry Hope, Jeff Bridges a fine, driven Parritt. Bradford Dillman, Moses Gunn, Evans Evans, Tom Pedi and John McLiam are all excellent. Yet the movie belongs most securely to Robert Ryan, and it is an eloquent memorial to his talent. Ryan, who died of cancer in July, was ailing while he was making Iceman. In the circumstances, it would be easy to sentimentalize his performance. But such a gesture would diminish its greatness. With the kind of power and intensity that is seldom risked, much less realized...