Word: heathcliff
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...romance, it left something to be desired. there was none of the mythic sweep of Tristan and Isolde, not a glimmer of the mystical intensity of Heathcliff and Catherine, nothing akin to Romeo and Juliet's tragic inevitability. But the affair between Bill and Monica--if affair is the appropriate word for an "inappropriate relationship"--has something to teach us anyway, in unexpected ways...
...director saw Fiennes in the TV film A Dangerous Man: Lawrence of Arabia and then in a remake of Wuthering Heights. "His Heathcliff," Spielberg says, "was a feral man, a kind of grownup Wild Child." He met Fiennes and tested him for Goeth. "Ralph did three takes. I still, to this day, haven't seen Take 2 or 3. He was absolutely brilliant," the director says. "After seeing Take 1, I knew he was Amon." In Fiennes' eyes, Spielberg says, "I saw sexual evil. It is all about subtlety: there were moments of kindness that would move across his eyes...
Qassem has served three stretches in jail on suspicion of being an activist. He is a man in his mid-30s, with black Heathcliff eyes and deep grooves like parentheses around his mouth. In the dusk he recalls the rituals of interrogation...
...What are you reading these days? "Wuthering Heights," he replies. Ah, yes. Hollywood made a movie from that one 50 years ago, and made a star of the actor who played Heathcliff. Larry something. What ever happened...
...generation he was Heathcliff and Hamlet; for another, the wily granddad of movie melodrama. And for the ages this prodigious, protean figure was our century's greatest actor...