Word: washingham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playing North as cool, rather xenophobic and wry (as his research suggested), Ustinov showed his contempt for the colonials by referring to a certain "Colonel George Washingham." Asked about another rebel leader, Ustinov could not restrain himself from a coy, anachronistic gag. "John Hancock, sir, there can be no insurance of anything while he is active," he sniffed. At more serious moments, Ustinov dismissed the Boston Massacre as "a minor incident" and, when queried as to "the core of the quarrel between the Americans and your government," replied: "You regard it as a quarrel; I regard it more as slight...
...forced as some of the old You Are There sagas or as deadly as a grade-school audio-visual lesson. Ustinov may do an encore when the series deals with King George III. But the next confrontation, tentatively scheduled for September, will feature either Firebrand Samuel Adams or "Washingham" himself. CBS hopes to land Richard Burton to play Adams, George C. Scott as Washington. Sevareid will do the interrogating again, though under the FCC "Fairness Doctrine" the British Empire might properly demand that he be replaced by David Frost...
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