Word: zhivago
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...woman who played muse to the Romantic era cannot really be called good, but it certainly is funny. The question is whether Writer-Director Robert Bolt achieved the hilarity by design or accident. His previous film work-for example, the scripts for those David Lean dirigibles Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter-has been pretty stiff and sobersided; silly, perhaps, but politely so. Here, making his debut as a film director, Bolt comes off rather like a De Mille with a university degree...
LOVE STORY $50,000,000 THE GRADUATE 48,300,000 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO 47,950,000 AIRPORT 45,300,000 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 43,000,000 BEN-HUR $40,750,000 MY FAIR LADY 32,000,000 M-A-S-H 31,100,000 MARY POPPINS 31,000,000 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE...
Born. To Sophia Loren, 38, Italy's eternal woman, who won an Academy Award for Two Women and accolades in many other films; and Carlo Ponti, 59, producer (Catch-22, Dr. Zhivago): their second child, second son; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...they have no doubt that he will win in November. But they enjoy his human fallibilities as well. George, they say, has a "corny sense of humor" that causes them to groan more than laugh. They also imply his taste in movies runs to schmaltz: he has seen Doctor Zhivago six times, they claim. Ann in particular worries that in spite of his morning exercises ("jumping jacks") and his nightly bowl of Wheaties, Father George "has a tendency to be too thin...
...weepy self-pity; the sarcastic facial expressions alone are phenomenal. Sergei Bondarchuk, as Dr. Astrov, is a bit too much the Russian bear for my taste. Astrov's passions are too often expressed by the tremor of voice and moistness of eye that Omar Sharif made infamous in Dr. Zhivago. But he can be subtle when necessary as in his scenes with Sonya, in which he delicately and deftly refuses her offer of love...