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...quixotic detective. Proving Margot's waywardness is the least of his worries; her suspected lover is the director of a Hollywood film crew currently making a movie at Lancelot's picturesque mansion. With unlimited funds and the help of a black M.I.T. student who is an electronics wizard, Lancelot has no trouble assembling incriminating video tapes. But he wants more than to film Margot flagrante delicto. Lancelot is on the trail of evil and an affirmation that it still has meaning. Says he: " 'Evil' is surely the clue to this age, the only quest appropriate...
Without Vice. Italy's banking community expressed shock last week at the arrest of Aloisi, who is widely known as un uomo senza vizi (a man without vice) and a financial wizard. Deputy chairman of one of Italy's largest banks, the elegant, British-tailored Aloisi runs several corporations, owns a racing stable and a famed Via Veneto watering place, the Caffe Doney...
...wasted" himself bringing Shakespeare bombastically to the screen and reciting poetry on the Tonight Show. To stage a production is to stage a production. Citizen Kane and Ambersons may have constituted neither flukes nor the harbinger of a restless, inspired, opus: they may just have proven that stage-wizard Welles, given good material and the tools of his trade, can put on one hell of an incomparable show...
...nearly 2½ hours, and considerably trimmed from the Russian version - one is put longingly in mind of Forbidden Planet. A lightheaded piece of American scifi, Forbidden Planet (1956) was a genial reworking of The Tempest in which some American astronauts were trapped on a distant planet. There a wizard, a stand-in for Prospero, conjured up an unconquerable force field of "monsters from the id." Hearing this, one of the astronauts inquired without hesitation, "What's the id?" The people who made Solaris may be beyond such inspired silliness, but pomposity is no fair substitute...
...shallow plot of Mattress breeds shallow characterizations. A gaggle of supporting actors is thus given freedom to attempt to steal the show, and two in particular come very close to succeeding. Peter Grand turns in a sparkling performance as the Wizard, a show-biz type turned minister. In the first act, he offers a frighteningly accurate imitation of Bob Ewbank, host of the Newlywed Game. And he walks off with the second act by virtue of an impressive display of magic tricks...