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...million loan guarantee from Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt. (The film eventually cost $6 million.) Campus Crusade says it consulted with hundreds of scholars and Christian leaders before the movie was made and cast it with Yemenite Jews--except for Jesus, who is played by British actor Brian Deacon...
...family menaced by all-time cunning sicko Robert Mitchum. At the climax, Peck trains a gun on the villain. Shoot 'im, Greg! But no. This time the good guy is not going to kill the bad guy; the rotter will be tried, convicted and imprisoned. A less confident actor might have let this verdict sound like weakness, but Peck sells the notion that life in jail is as unpleasant as a bullet...
...dangerous to confuse an actor with his movie roles. But by all accounts the reel and the real Gregory Peck were close kin. He was a model of probity, a loyal friend to colleagues in distress, a father confessor to the Hollywood community. He chaired the National Society of This, the American Academy of That. He was laden with official honors: Lyndon Johnson gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Richard Nixon put him on his Enemies List. Peck received perhaps his sweetest laurel last week when the reclusive Lee, on hearing of his death, said, "Gregory Peck...
DiSpirito and crew interviewed some 3,000 potential staff members, many of whom, unsurprisingly, had show-biz dreams. "There are some actors and actresses who have waited here, and every night they're Ethel Merman, playing to the cameras," says Rocco's maitre d', Alex Corrado. "I just try to be myself." It doesn't hurt that Corrado's self happens to be a rotund, New Jersey--accented Italian-American actor (he was eaten by wild boars in Hannibal) who earlier in the evening was singing opera in front of the restaurant. Says Burnett: "This cast would do great...
...DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, legendary actor of American stage and screen; in Fairfield, Connecticut. The Canadian-born star got his big break on Broadway in 1935 in the Three Men on a Horse, and made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Cronyn and his wife and longtime stage partner, Jessica Tandy, were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, and each won a Tony for special lifetime theatrical achievement in 1994; Tandy died later that year. Cronyn once said he found film easier than the stage, but less satisfying: "My heart...