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...possible way, beginning with his height, which is usually listed at 6 ft. 9 in. He was married five times, and divorced four. But it's his polymathic professional achievements that make him an almost implausibly imposing figure. Crichton trained as a doctor at Harvard Medical School. He directed Yul Brinner in Westworld and Sean Connery in The Great Train Robbery. He created ER, one of the most successful TV dramas of all time, and co-wrote the screenplay for the 90s tornado-chasing thriller Twister. (See the 100 best albums, movies, TV shows and novels of all time...
That was 1956, when 20th Century Fox released The King and I, starring Yul Brynner as the King of Siam. It was an annus mirabilis for hairless potentates but also the twilight of their brief golden age--the last time heads of state were not synonymous with heads of hair...
...Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (again with Mitchum), whose plot sounds like the first line of a joke - did you hear the one about the Marine and the nun, stranded on a Pacific island? There's the spark of attraction too when she plays the English governess to Yul Brynner's Siamese monarch in The King and I. Shall they dance? Divinely. Consummate their affections? Unthinkable...
...Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds and dozens of others stars-in-the-making came from. Steve McQueen, fresh from the Actors Studio, became a bounty hunter in Wanted: Dead or Alive. He moved to the big screen in The Magnificent Seven, which introduced a new generation of Western stars, including Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson and James Coburn. A good thing, since the previous generation of cowboys, from Wayne, Stewart and Cooper to Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, were becoming so senior that, s Pauline Kael wrote, the only suspense in their Westerns was to see if they could still mount...
...this 1960 version of the Kurosawa classic. For a time, it upended the genre's concentration on noble or twisted loners; this was the first all-star western romp. It's in no way a terrific film; director John Sturges was a pedestrian showman. But to watch McQueen, Coburn, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach fight for screen time is to see a fabulous showdown of egos--like Meet the Fockers, with six-guns instead of sex puns...