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...studios then typecast him in a long series of heavy roles, notably the swinish pervert in The Dirty Dozen (1967). When Hollywood sagged as a film center in the '60s, Savalas moved his wife Lynn and their three daughters to Europe, where he worked unenthusiastically as a villain in Italian potboilers. "One day," he says yearningly, "they will realize I can do a romantic story. Forget the gorilla exterior. Inside is a 16-year-old Romeo...
Died. Sessue Hayakawa, 84, Japanese-born movie villain of the silent screen who in 1958 received an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Colonel Saito, the fanatical, stony-faced prison-camp commander in The Bridge on the River Kwai; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...
...villain in Rosovsky's report is the graduate school. The dean points out that graduate students make up 30 per cent of all students but provide less than 19 per cent of tuition income. And it is also the graduate school which may have to make the most sacrifices...
Without an accessible target for their outrage, Philadelphians feel lost and doubly betrayed. Whether the villain has been Dick Allen, Frank Rizzo or Richard Nixon, Philadelphians have always limited their perceptions to the individual and his personal failings. In their Watergate protest, they have thus conveniently ignored the forces which elected Rizzo and Nixon...
Interviewed by the press, he says his mistake was in being too small an operator. "Crime does not pay in a small way," he says. "One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify...