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...pretty but plodding historical sagas is less surprising. With its lavish sets (including the 17th century Kremlin) and the proverbial cast of thousands, the eight- hour, $27 million epic looks spectacular. Maximillian Schell, the most prominent of four actors who play Peter, has moments of leonine power, and Vanessa Redgrave is striking as his treacherous sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard and Mel Ferrer--is lost in the pageantry. Edward Anhalt's script is flabby and inert, and history is contaminated with hokey invention (a bogus meeting in London...
Before John Morgan's (Tim McInnerney) bloody mess demands any attention, the brewing uncertainty and turbulence here remains neatly capped beneath the calm British exteriors. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is a well-liked schoolteacher who has a number of close friends and a lovely Yorkshire cottage. There certainly are hints of loneliness beneath the cheerfulness, but it takes Morgan's suicide to knock loose her stifled memories...
...wanted to be a musical-comedy star, and "I plan to be a success," said Vanessa Williams after winning the 1984 Miss America title. But the shock of her nude photos in Penthouse nine months later cost her the title and all likelihood of immediate stardom. In the year since, she has been slowly working her way back, with a forgettable guest shot on a TV detective series last fall and a turn among the many performers at last month's reopening of Harlem's Apollo Theater. This week at Manhattan's South Street Theater, she gets...
DIED. Michael Redgrave, 77, regal British stage and screen actor, one of the most versatile performers in the great British generation that includes Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud and patriarch of an acting dynasty that numbers his wife Rachel Kempson, daughters Vanessa and Lynn and son Corin; of Parkinson's disease; in Denham, England. Tall and handsome, a superb, cerebral technician with a richly expressive voice, he was less likely to play romantic leads than cool intellectuals or forbidding colonels whose aloof or aristocratic facades fail to conceal the emotions within. On the London stage, he mastered some...
Another founder, Vanessa K. Thomas 86, said that the group's efforts are not just focused on the Harvard community. "We felt that Black students in the Cambridge and Boston area are being exposed mainly to Blacks who are athletes or entertainers. We hope to broaden their career perspectives by getting Blacks from other fields to speak to them here at Harvard," Thomas said...