Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DOUGLAS R. HOLM Tucson, Ariz...
...Whitaker, on leave from his true calling, which is shilling for a line of kid's clothes. Jeff East plays Huck like an old-fashioned fraternity boy dressed up for the Sadie Hawkins Day dance in Al Capp's Dogpatch. Warren Gates as Muff Potter and Celeste Holm as Aunt Polly struggle against the killing banality of Taylor's direction; but only Jodie Foster, as Becky, suggests that she somehow remembers what it is like to be a real person in a real world. · Richard Schickel
...hard calculation is a pleasure to watch. Anne Bancroft is serviceable as his wife, being required only to produce a variety of worried expressions to accompany such lines as, "Must you be...so hard on Winston, Randolph?" Almost every minor role--Pat Heywood as Winston's nanny Ian Holm as George Buckle, the Editor of the London Times, Anthony Hopkins as Lioyd George--is perfectly cast, although director Richard Attenborough has his actors occasionally read their lines as if they were already inscribed in history...
...fury of a grade school recess. He has better luck with the actors, perhaps because he is an actor himself. Ward is credible in the thorny role of Winston as a young man, Shaw superb as his father. The secondary characters are all cast and played faultlessly, with Ian Holm as editor of the Times and Anthony Hopkins as Lloyd George especially engaging. Anne Bancroft, who ought to have been perfect as Lady Randolph, is thwarted largely by a part that asks her only to be coquettish or long-suffering. Young Winston suffocates her restless dynamism, just as it does...
Most amateur athletes would agree. Unreasonably censorious and sometimes inconsistent in his decisions, Brundage has in fact been a controversial influence on the games for nearly half of their modern history. As chief of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1936, he dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett from the team sent to Berlin because she drank champagne during the Atlantic crossing. The same year, he countered attacks on Nazi anti-Semitism by issuing a brochure that argued that "the persecution of minority peoples is as old as history." Since becoming I.O.C. president in 1952, Brundage has, if anything, grown more stern...