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...Symbol Brigitte Bardot off to Hollywood for the West Coast opening of Viva Maria! and Sex Symbol Sophia Loren had Manhattan all to herself. Well, not all. Such other delightful images as Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin paraded into Broadway's Capitol theater for the premiere of Doctor Zhivago, but the crowd saved the rave for Sophia, who didn't even play in the picture. She just tagged along in white mink cape and Dior gown with Producer Carlo Ponti, her once and future husband. In all the crush, Sophia and Carlo were beaming because of some moral...
...Doctor Zhivago. Behind the opaque, frosted window pane of a room in Moscow, a candle's flame slowly melts a circle through which the camera peers at a young man reading a letter. As he absorbs terrible revelations about the girl he loves, the circle becomes a poetic, crystaline metaphor for his swollen anguish and the inevitable burning away of youth's illusions. Such fully visualized moments are the key to Director David Lean's triumph over the challenge of filming Boris Pasternak's monumental bestseller. With monastic zeal (TIME, Dec. 24), he has translated...
...Winter. Rita Tushingham, who plays Lara's and Zhivago's love child, found working on the set "terribly intense." Tom Courtenay grimly recalls being asked to pose as Strelnikov on the platform of the armored train: "No dialogue. No expression. But that bloody scene took two days to shoot." Geraldine Chaplin's most vivid memory is working in the hot Spanish sun while wearing black wool stockings, boots, three sweaters and a fur jacket: "I was so soaking wet, I felt I was leaving big soggy footprints...
Lean got what he went for, including the most tantalizing shot in the script. It calls for a frosted pane of glass, through which Zhivago is gazing, to dissolve into a field vibrant with daffodils. Lean found the perfect pane in a ski shack, hauled it into the open for the cameras. Then back the camera crew went to Spain, where 4,000 potted daffodils were put in place to complete the scene. On film, the sequence takes only an instant to show the change of seasons, but for Lean the effect is essential...
Repeatedly he has trudged to the nearby sound studio. There French Composer Maurice Jarre, an Oscar-winner for his Lawrence background music, was conducting his 104-man symphony orchestra to synchronize with the Zhivago images flickering on the big overhead screen. In Metro's screening theater, Lean has slumped, listening to the mix of 20 different soundtracks being blended into the four final ones, occasionally growling criticisms, such as "There's no sound of it snowing" or "That baby's crying is too loud." Not until noon this Monday, when he falls aboard the plane...