Valley Times from North Hollywood, California • 24

rpw 1 'f" MV 1 fft'J 'V f- 2 s. VALLEY TIMES, Friday, July 11, 1969 JM AT REGENT WESTWOOD Three Into Two ttjmM i Wont Go for Many Omar He had (and has) the great determination to be an actor. Yet he would much rather he OMAR SHARIF is the Egyptian who plays Nicky Amstein, Jewish gambler In Funny Girl," Colorado, the Mexican bandit in Mackennas Gold, By NADINE M. EDWARDS Actually, Three Into Two Wont Go, will. Comes out .666 which, to the average mathematician, is about as exciting as the new Universal release now on exclusive view at the Regent Theater, West-wood.

A picture that will prove more than a little disappointing to devotees of Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom and the newly acquired fans of Judy Geeson (To Sir, With Love.) a bad actor Jhan bad bridge player. (Acting Is work. And like any fotm of and the revolutionary Juevara In Che. (Che) Guevara I dont work.) He never exercises. He finds tournament bridge rougher than a movie set, (rl how to get it, theyre in bed together within a few short hours.

From then on his moral He also plays a very good game of tournament bridge. He was panned In his native country because of his love scenes with Barbra Streisand, Brooklyns answer to NefvtdrtL you think Cairo is upset, commented Barbra, you should have talked to my Aunt Rose. decay Is complete, his new- He looks like Nicky Amsteip dressed In Western costume Completely In tune with the depressing, downbeat and immoral genre of many of our adult films today, Three Into Two Wont Go is, however, strangely out of tune with the particularly fine talents of those Involved. For the film Is one-dimensional in scope; lacks any great dramatic depth and is almost singularly bereft of any pertinent comment entertaining or otherwise. The only qualifying feature if one can call it that is to point up the fact that while a portion of mantis preparing to go to the moon, those behind are going to the devil.

Perhaps that is the cogent statement novelist Andrea Newman was trying to make. Directed by British Peter Hall of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and adapted to the screen by Edna OBrien, one gets the feeling, watching Steiger, that he has just step- found Lolita wrapping him around her little finger with cunning, sensual aplomb; his only thought to be with her. But that is only the beginning. The beginning of a web of intripe, distrust, anpish and bittemesa that leaves behind only a mountain of ashes. As mentioned before, Steigers and Miss Blooms do linoa tlons are so cariciturized there Is no real feeling for olther one.

Miss Geeson as the hitchhiking chippie who keeps a rating" on the men shes been to bed with comes off the best of the three In a role that is at once demanding for such a recent film newcomer. In a stand-out cameo role, Peggy Ashcroft plays Miss Blooms self-pl-tying mother; with Paul often wear out the seat of my trousers during a bridge tour.) He comes onto the set carefree, friendly, knows hit lines. Yet he often takes four tranquilizers during a days filming. He plays gin rummy between scenes. He has been taken In gin rummy by Barbra; and by Telly Salavas during Macken-nas Gold." He usually loses at Vegas playing blackjack.

He will often leave ft studio, go to Vegas, gamble for ft Jew hours, return 2 or In the morning, and be on the get at 8. He will take risks when gambling for himself. In team play he is stable playing for the team. He is married (my estranged wife) to an Egyptian actress, ft Hamama (Arabic for beautiful dove) and they have a son, Tarek (March 21, 1957). He is ft thoughtful father, He is not a reader.

Often he is a pleasant conversationalist. He lives where he is making a movie. (My home is in four suitcases.) However, recently he bought a house in Paris. Is trying to make this his residence between pictures and bridge He is charming, well-mannered. He always lights a cigaret for a woman; sometimes for a man, too.

He has style. He is night people. He seldom goes to bed before the wee small hour of oed out of his uniform (from Rogers portraying a The Sergeant) and Into philand philandering Inn-keeper. MISMATCHED DUEL Tiny Peter Pan fights the villainous Capt. Hook, in scene from warm family film, Peter Pan, Walt Disney release returning Wednesday for extensive citywide run.

Go; which The OMAR SHARIF civilian clothes. His mannerisms and expressions are so Identical; the frustrated love theme so similar, that you expect him to yell out, Hup, Two, Three, Fourl" Notlcably flabby In appearance, Steiger plays a mid- die-aged businessman who is fYiQmn HUStOnf Julian Blaustein produced Three Into Two Wont Christian Gaubert arranged and conducted the score Francis Lai composed. flfm has an rating. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TOUR Moi-Sat 1 1 A mu 5 'tvntfau: I fbtu LITERATE AND FUNNY!" n.y. rww out to prove he is still ex- fi tremely attractive to the JUflCjlQ Jim, blGT Here for Films The Story of a man woman a girl who rated all her "friendslna little black booh! the morning.

He sleeps in lllk, Llw tailored pajamas. Always the Young Broadway actor Martin Huston, who has starred in such hits as Come Blow Your Horn, Enter Laughing," A Race of Hairy Men and The Midnight Ride of Alvin Blum," has arrived in Hollywood to confer on film offers. tops and bottoms. He has been told he sleeps well-mannered. ladles, despite the fact ho has a very loyal, intelligent and lovely wife at home, Claire Bloom.

Theirs is a cold relationship one of almost complete estrangement, brought about by her inability to have children, which ho desperately wants; and further fostered by his adulterous escapades. When he picks up a teenage hitchhiker, Judy Geeson, on one of his many business hips, you know exactly what is going to happen. A tough little blonde who knows exactly what she wants and exactly Its the first visit hero for the 26-year-old Huston since he co-starred as Tohnny Weissmuller son in the TV series, Jungle Jim, more than a decade ago. Auberjonois Is Farceur In Chemin' going to the Share party Mackennaa Gold. He cant understand why Castro didnt the plane talking him to Puerto Rico where most of Che was filmed.

He appears more easy-going than he actually is. He has an ulcer. He usually hs a romance with his leading lady. At least he tries. He was bom April 11 1934, in Alexandria, Egypt.

His real name is Michel Shalhoub. (Im Syrian by descent, Egyptian by He is a pampered only child. His father a successful lumber dealer In Cairo. His mother was a compulsive gambler. She played cards 12 to 14 hours a day.

(I guess I got it from her. I was her favorite son, despite the fact I was an only He has a good sense of humor. Sometimes he smiles too much. He is 5 feet 11, weighs 175, black hair, brown eyes, and is a lover. Is necessary for talent to show itself.) He is a graduate of Cairos English university, Victoria College.

After graduation, he went into his fathers business. He knew he wanted to be an actor. He wanted since he was four. He says: Hollywood movies clinched It. I was raised on Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart.

I went to double bills, even triple features. For ten cents. NEW SUMMER MATINEE POLICY1 UALL SEATS MONDAY thru FRIDAY $2.50 MATINEES ON Wf MATINEES DAILY AT 8:00 PM EVENINGS AT 8:30 (SUNDAY 8:00) WINNER i Rod Steiger Claire Bloom Jody Geeson 0 0 ACADEMY AWARDS! BEST ACTRESS-Katharine Hepburn JOSCTH LEVINE rM AN AVCO CMIA55Y FILM peie kmharing OTOOL6 H6PBURN Rene Auberjonois, who created a definitive portrayal of a major classic French character in the title role of the ACT San Francisco production of Tartuffe and subsequently appeared In a comic role in the acclaimed Center Theater Group staging of "The Miser, will step Into another classic French role as a principal farceur In the current comedy hit, "Chemin De Fer at the Mark Taper Forum, beginning July 12. In a Gallic shift, Mr, Auberjonois steps into the role of Hubertin, replacing Jacques Aubuchon who is leaving the Company to appear. In the ABC motion picture Divers Five, which1 will be filmed on location in the Bahamas.

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