Word: zhivago
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...role of Zhivago, Lean first thought of his Lawrence, Peter O'Toole, then, to add "a certain foreignness," he decided on Egyptian-born Omar Sharif (whose hair was thatched over and his eyes slightly pulled back to give him a vaguely Tartar gaze). For subsidiary roles, Lean picked two knights, Sir Alec Guinness as Zhivago's brother (making Guinness' fifth picture with Lean, beginning with Great Expectations) and Sir Ralph Richardson, who plays Tonya's father, with Siobhan McKenna as Tonya's mother. To add further strength to the cast, Lean tapped Rita Tushingham...
When the cast assembled outside Ma drid one year ago on Dec. 28, they found almost ten acres of reproductions of Moscow streets and buildings, and three hours north, on the Spanish plains near Soria, were Zhivago's Ural settings. MGM, which financed the film, had all but given Lean a blank check. As a result, costume details, down to wool petticoats, were authentic and logistics were superb. Marveled Sir Ralph Richardson, "This is what it must have been like traveling with Napoleon...
...Nobel Prize." Western critics recalled what the prize was being "rehabilitated" from-the 1958 episode when the party bludgeoned the late Boris Pasternak into "voluntarily" refusing the prize. Sholokhov himself had got in some of the licks, denouncing the Swedes as "unobjective" and belittling the author of Doctor Zhivago as a "hermit crab." Now that the Academy had demonstrated its objectivity to his satisfaction, Sholokhov smiled and announced: "I gratefully accept the Nobel Prize...
Even in paperback, the Alexandria Quartet, Anthony Powell's The Music of Time series, Gide's Journals and all of C. P. Snow are apt to stir poolside suspicion. Anyone who takes his summer reading seriously must weather such risks-or else tuck his Doctor Zhivago inside Doctor No. The lowbrow in search of status will reverse the process and hide Sexus under, say, Koestler's The Act of Creation. The camouflage problem is more complicated for the compulsive careerist, who always gets "some good new books" before he leaves on vacation. But how can he bury...
Emily, the pet five-foot python that Geraldine Chaplin, 20, used to carry around Europe in a sack, evidently taught her something. On location in Spain, where she is playing the role of Tonia, the demure, bourgeois wife of Dr. Zhivago, the great Charlie's daughter suddenly assumed a herpetic pose. But as Geraldine said once, "For a young dancer like myself, what a treat it is to watch a snake move. Their suppleness and their elegance are incomparable...