Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...overlooked at cocktail parties. The face was familiar, but then hundreds of guys are tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and skinny (185 lbs.), with blond hair, blue eyes, belled teeth, slightly bowed ears, and a resemblance to a tall pencil or a short television tower. Meanwhile, in one film after another for the past two years, Sutherland has been filling the screen with a low-key presence that has left critics grasping for adjectives and audiences grasping for his name. All that is changing, however, for he is becoming established as one of the finest talents in the cinematic youth...
...figures that movies are "a director's medium. It all happens in the cutting room. As an actor, you can only bring so much to a film. As a director, there is almost no limit." With that in mind, Sutherland bought himself a movie camera and spent the holidays filming his family. He has not seen the results and fears he may have used the wrong lens. But he insists: "I just know I can do it." Audiences can only hope that Director Sutherland will not rob them of Actor Sutherland...
...when London per se was thought to be the most stylish place in the world). In the musical version we do not get Bates and Redgrave-and we don't get their characters either. Instead, Georgy gives us two actors, Dilys Watling and John Castle, who dress like their film antecedents, use some of their prototypes' mannerisms, and proceed to walk through a clumsy recreation of the film's slight plot...
...intrinsic charismatic personality. Bates and Redgrave are the kind of beings who could have made Georgy Girl work regardless of the screenplay. Watling and Castle are mere actors, who-even if they are not great characters in their own right-could clearly come up with an equivalent of the film's personalities if given characters...
...jumping up and down to the steps of a mundane choreographer don't communicate a real kookiness, but only serve as flashcards for a kind of showbiz cutesiness. At best, the number reminds us of Lynn Redgrave's fleshed-out Georgy and her scene with the kids in the film...