Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers ask the Seine Tribunal to muzzle the ads because they cast doubt on her love for her husband, thus injured "her honor, her happiness and her private life." The tribunal refused, but hinted that the ads were slightly ambiguous before Perrier augmented them with pictures of a plump baby hugging a bottle...
...play's cast and most of the town of Oberammergau (pop. 5,000) rushed to defend the play. On this matter, Christ and Judas agreed. Said blond, bearded Anton Preisiger, 48, who played Christ so movingly ten years ago that he was asked to take the part again this year: "What ugly accusations against a play whose main theme is love!" Echoed Hans Schwaighofer, 40, who plays Judas: "As far as my interpretation of Judas goes, I shall not depict him as a villain but as a man torn between faith and disbelief, tortured by his own conscience...
...More Hatred. If Critic Davis has to probe history to attack the play itself, he does not have to go so far to fault the performers. Tradition has it that all of the performers should lead exemplary lives. With the present cast, including Christ and Judas, this is notably not the case: they were members of the Nazi Party. The play's longtime director, 70-year-old Woodcarver George Johann Lang, offers an explanation: "I was a Nazi, and I was jailed for it for two years after the war. I hoped that the Nazis would bring order into...
Says one diehard member of the cast: "A great deal of this drama will have been sacrificed...
...most poignantly comic weirdie of the lot was Waldemar Schindl, a soulful inventor living in an isolated hamlet in the Austrian Alps. When King visited him in the late '20s, Schindl unveiled a machine that looked like a badly made cast-iron bird cage. The contraption gave an enormous heave and one of the wires stabbed at a piece of paper. It suddenly dawned on King that "that poor old chowder-head had - all by himself up here in this moonstruck eyrie - reinvented the typewriter...