Yul Brynner

...'Beautify America' thing going on around here," he tells Billy and Wyatt later. "They're trying to make everyone look like Yul Brynner." Nicholson had been acting in films for more than a decade when he appeared in Easy Rider,...

In this article: Easy Rider, Jack Nicholson, Billy Bob Thornton, Las Vegas, Deep South, Cormac McCarthy, and No Country for Old Men

...Movie Columnist Larry Harnisch reflects on Los Angeles history Nov. 18, 1955: While on tour in Chicago with "The King and I," Yul Brynner worked on a doctorate in philosophy at Northwestern and gave drama lessons to the rest of the cast,...

In this article: The King and I, Chicago, and Los Angeles

...of Ford's F-150 pick-up truck). Naysayers may recall its US foray decades ago, when only curiosity seekers such as actor Yul Brynner and President Lyndon Johnson had one, according to historian Alessandro Sannia. But I'm delighted. The...

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...since joined the elite roster of actors who have owned a stage character over time, like Carol Channing in "Hello, Dolly'' and Yul Brynner in "The King and I.'' But Topol, perhaps more than anyone, has fused actor and character into a...

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...he snapped pictures of people and places across the globe. Only once, though, did he take a photo on the set. Nimoy photographed Yul Brynner while the two were making the 1971 western "Catlow." But looking through the viewfinder, he saw...

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..."Cyrano de Bergerac" (Tony in 1947, Oscar in 1950), Shirley Booth for "Come Back, Little Sheba" (Tony in 1950, Oscar in 1953), Yul Brynner for "The King and I" (featured Tony in 1952, lead Oscar in 1956), Rex Harrison for "My Fair Lady" (Tony...

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...eviction from her studio above the concert hall. It was in her 12th-floor studio with a breathtaking vista of Central Park that Yul Brynner, Tyrone Power, Boris Karloff and other stars came for their black-and-white portraits. It is...

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...of Arabia looks like. He looks like Peter O'Toole. Just as Cleopatra looks like Elizabeth Taylor, and the King of Siam looks like Yul Brynner. A British military expert on Arab customs, T.E. Lawrence (above) often wore traditional Bedouin...

In this article: Peter O'Toole, T.E. Lawrence, Amelia Earhart, Julie and Julia, Brian Clough, Lawrence of Arabia, Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Adobe Flash Player, and The Damned United

...- while a vast colour portrait of Charlton Heston shows the awful hypocrite resting his hand on a volume of Thomas Mann. In 1956, Yul Brynner looks appropriately mysterious; G B Shaw's eyes peer from below his massive, shadowing eyebrows...

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Long before Michael Crichton threatened park goers with T-rexes and Velociraptors, he directed "Westworld," his own script about Yul Brynner as a black-hatted robo-cowboy gone berserk. James Brolin played the heroic counterpart to his...

In this article: Westworld, Michael Crichton, James Brolin, Delos, Starship Enterprise, Surrogates, Self-determination, and Medieval