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...135s will be filmed for Universal-International's A Gathering of Eagles, but the planes' crews must be "in training" at the time. And Columbia's Flight from Ashiya (about the Air Rescue Service) has been bowdlerized at Pentagon insistence. In the original script, a paramedic says to an uncomprehending Arab girl: "I bet you'd be great in the sack...
...What is the rationale in listing the big cast on the printed program specifically not in order of speaking? It is particularly difficult in Shakespeare's history plays to identify many of the sirs, lords, soldiers and whatnot, who often are not referred to by name in the script. A change in policy would be of service to the audience and to the players -- not to mention critics...
Welles spent six months on the script, paring it down to what he considered a workable approximation of the novel. Then he scoured Europe for possible locations, settled on Yugoslavia for its "natural sets, which couldn't be 'placed' by most cinema audiences, the faces in crowds with a Kafka look to them, and the hideous blockhouse, soul-destroying buildings, which are somehow typical of modern Iron Curtain architecture." In a mammoth exposition hall just outside Zagreb, Welles set up the 850 office desks, 850 secretaries and 850 clattering typewriters among which Kafka's hero...
...plot gets almost as impenetrable as a London fog: Mr. Hardwicke appears, only to be duly and ambiguously shot and killed by Mrs. Hardwicke. The ensuing trial scene could well have been edited out. But whenever the script gets draggy, Director Richard Quine perks things up with a sight gag-like Kim Novak tubbing with the nude serenity of the White Rock girl while the intruding Lemmon clicks his eyes open and shut at the speed of a navy signal light. In a berserk finale, Novak trades punches with a lady nurse the size of a Japanese Sumo wrestler...
With this bit of dialogue, Poet Kenneth Koch begins a beatnik playlet, which was produced off Broadway last March, on how the American Revolution was won. Last week, posted in large letters on one wall of Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery, the script served to accompany one of the nuttier art exhibitions of the season. Throughout the gallery stand nearly life-size wooden cutouts of Washington and his horse, Washington and the cherry tree, Washington crossing the Delaware...