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Charles
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posted 10/31/05 7:21 AM
A funny story, I hope, although it doesn't have <BR>anything to do with the marvelous Thelonious <BR>Bernard. My dad appeared with Diane Lane in "The <BR>Cherry Orchard" at Lincoln Center in New York in <BR>1977, when she was 12 years old. When he saw "A <BR>Little Romance" a couple of years later, he claimed <BR>that Laurence Olivier, upon seeing his mug shot in <BR>the Italian newspaper, mimiced the gestures and <BR>sounds he had made decades earlier when he <BR>played Oedipus tearing his eyes out! My father's <BR>reaction, which no one else in the audience <BR>understood, of course, was to guffaw and shout at <BR>the screen, "You Son of a *****!" I've always had a <BR>soft spot for Olivier's performance in this film; it's <BR>over the top in spots, but his last few scenes are <BR>played so softly and with such dignity. I didn't see <BR>ALR with my dad, but it is probably my favorite all-<BR>time romantic film. Unfortunately, the novel upon <BR>which it is based - e=mc2 by Patrick Cauvin - <BR>seems never to have been translated into English. <BR>Check out this website though: www.livre-po-<BR>cher.com. A copy is for sale for only 1.5 euros and <BR>the cover art is a photo from the film of our two <BR>young romantics kissing! By the way, can anyone <BR>say if Lane discusses Bernard in her interview on <BR>the DVD? I vaguely remember her saying that he <BR>was still around a few years ago on Inside the <BR>Actors Studio. I'd love to see a sequel with the two <BR>of them, and I certainly wouldn't mind a remake as <BR>long as they got a couple of really strong young <BR>actors for the leads. Sorry for the ridiculously long <BR>post, everyone.
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