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Other Winners and How to Win! Winner August '00
Alec Guinness
Posted by: PALLADIA
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A vulture, gyring on thermals over a jungle. Roughly-made crosses, marking the graves of men who had died, building a railroad in Burma.
A stubborn man. "Such a blinkered man," Alec Guinness called his Colonel Nicholson, who threw down the gauntlet of his will against the Japanese in "The Bridge on the River Kwai," knowing well what the price would probably be.
"In this particular job as an actor, you have to have an eye and will of your own, to get away with things," Guinness said, in a 1986 interview. He was probably smiling when he said it, putting a softer front on his own adamancy.
Told by his first acting teacher that he should seek another line of work, he persisted, commenting that he had paid in advance, and was entitled to the number of lessons for which he had contracted.
He gave us "Kind Hearts and Coronets," "The Horse's Mouth," "Lawrence of Arabia," "Cromwell," and, of course, another stubborn, guileful man, Obi-wan Kenobi, of "Star Wars®."
Guinness' intelligence glowed at the heart of each of his varied performances, and he was a favorite actor of the director, David Lean, from "Great Expectations" in 1946, "Doctor Zhivago," in 1965, to "A Passage to India," in 1984.
Alec Guinness died August 5, aged 86.
- Palladia
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