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Despite the logistical difficulty of the film, Cameron claims his Titanic is more a love story than an action picture--which may not soothe his backers' anxieties. Inspired by the romance and sweep of Doctor Zhivago, the director-screenwriter has devised a fictional liaison between first-class passenger Winslet and third-class cute guy DiCaprio. The director says he's fascinated by the notion that people who were supposed to be coddled and secure were facing imminent doom. "They thought they were safe in this big luxury hotel," he says. "In fact, they were in a steel object over...
DIED. OLGA IVINSKAYA, 83, longtime mistress of Russian novelist Boris Pasternak and inspiration for Lara, the heroine of his epic love story Doctor Zhivago; in Moscow...
Unfortunately, the new Broadway production is an ice crystal gone a little soft at the edges. Courtenay, a veteran British stage performer probably best known here for his film roles (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; Dr. Zhivago), offers a Vanya of precise but wistful enunciations, interspersed with moments of careening grandeur. But the rest of the cast is weak. Gerry Bamman overacts as the bankrupt landowner Telyegin. Amanda Donohoe (formerly of L.A. Law) looks lovely as the irresistible beauty Yelena but fails to wring any pathos from her realization that in life she has "always played a minor...
...shattering historical events runs through much of Bolt's work, from his career-making play, 1960's A Man for All Seasons, which he fashioned into an Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1966 movie version, to his scripts for the David Lean epics Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Dr. Zhivago (1965)-the latter earning Bolt an Oscar...
...when Kim Il Sung began building his ghost republic), and both are further hemmed in by their commitment to guerrilla leaders who really did help to free their people from foreign domination. Yet beneath those surface similarities, North Korea and Cuba are as different as Doctor Strangelove and Doctor Zhivago, as different as a made-to-order Stalinist dystopia where not a thought is out of place and an unruly Caribbean island that is the stuff of Marx's nightmares. In North Korea the government tells every citizen what to wear every day; in Cuba even soldiers help streetwalkers hustle...