Word: ustinov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Peter Ustinov, Geraldine Page and Anthony Quayle going Barefoot in Athens, and having a rough time of it as Socrates (Ustinov) is ordered to stand trial for corrupting the thoughts of Athenian youth. Hemlock for those who miss...
...FRONTIERS OF THE SEA by Peter Ustinov. 247 pages. Atlanfic-Littleff/e, Brown...
...young and easy anymore. Now Gobel is selling pork and beans. Feiffer has stayed just the same -- perhaps I've come to resent him some for that stagnation -- and behold, those Limeys come back, and they haven't changed either. Michael Flanders, archetype of Shavian urbanity (imagine Peter Ustinov impersonating Tom Lehrer), and Donald Swann, a mad leprechaun escaped from some Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society (imagine Arthur Schlesinger impersonating Peter Pan) still jesting and warbling about Wilson and De Gaulle, dieting and astrology, parking problems and fixit-men. They are topical satirists, yes, and still provide a wonderfully...
...fine loony beginning for a high comedy in period style, but the flashbacks that follow bring Lady L to a spotty end. Her confession story, plucked from Romain Gary's novel by protean Writer-Director Peter Ustinov (who also spills out of a minor role as an addled Bavarian prince), describes how a scrumptious Parisian laundress rises to greatness as the wife of David Niven, one of England's most debonair lords. En route to her destiny. Sophia is delayed briefly in a bordello, which has chambers designed for train buffs or Arabian Knights. There she meets Paul...
...that a ninth prize be awarded to the "worst judges in the history of the Cannes Film Festival." Others posted a petition denouncing the judges for "selecting the two most vulgar films, Alfie and Signore e Signori." Shrugged Judge Loren: "You can't please everybody." Agreed departing Judge Ustinov, relieved to be relieved of his assignment: "I am going to take a sabbatical and go back to being a crook...