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Olivier and thought
During filming, the makeup process for Olivier took two and a half hours, but after it was complete, he thought he neither looked like himself nor like General MacArthur.
Olivier Roy has described Qutb's attitude towards the west is one of " radical contempt and hatred " for the West, rather than reasoned criticism, and complains that the propensity of Muslims like Qutb to blame problems on outside conspiracies " is currently paralyzing Muslim political thought.

Olivier and Sergius
* The most prestigious London revival was directed by John Burrell for The Old Vic Company at the New Theatre, which opened on 5 September 1944, starring Ralph Richardson ( Bluntschli ), Margaret Leighton ( Raina Petkoff ), Joyce Redman ( Louka ), and Laurence Olivier ( Major Sergius Saranoff ).

Olivier and part
Whale offered the part of Stanhope to the then-barely known Laurence Olivier.
Selznick observed that she had shown no enthusiasm for the part until Olivier had been confirmed as the lead actor so he cast Joan Fontaine.
Olivier and Leigh were chagrined that part of the commercial success of the play lay in audience members attending to see what they believed would be a salacious and sensationalist story, rather than the Greek tragedy that they envisioned ; but the play also had strong supporters, among them Noël Coward who described Leigh as " magnificent.
Faisal was originally to be portrayed by Laurence Olivier ; Guinness, who performed in other David Lean films, got the part when Olivier dropped out.
It was his last screen appearance in a Shakespearean role, its pathos deriving in part from the physical frailty of Olivier the actor.
( Laurence Olivier had originally been chosen to play the part.
Charles accompanied them on their journey but, not wanting to take part in the campaign personally, got Olivier de Mauny to stage an ambush in which Charles was ' captured ' and held until the reconquest of Castile was over.
In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson Stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in the television series Yes Minister ( and Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister ), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III ( Olivier Award ) and the film version entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
In the later part of the first decade of the 21st century, designers such as Alexander McQueen, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh, Ann Demeulemeester, Rodarte, Hedi Slimane, John Richmond, John Galliano, Olivier Theyskens, and Yohji Yamamoto brought elements of goth to runways.
The part of Ezra Lieberman was based on Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, whom Olivier had met to ask advice on the part.
When Rev Gerald Olivier moved to the neighbourhood in 1912 with his family, including the young Laurence Olivier, to minister to the parishioners of St Saviour, it was part of a venture to west London " slums " that had previously taken the family to the depths of Notting Hill.
Photo: Tony French. Returning to England, in July 1962 he took part in the Chichester Festival Theatre's opening season, playing the title role in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya to the Astrov of Laurence Olivier who also directed.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Baker was part of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre company and had his first big film break in 1971 with the role of Rasputin in the film Nicholas and Alexandra ( after Olivier recommended him for the part ).
It was followed by The Critic ( 1779 ), an updating of the satirical Restoration play The Rehearsal, which received a memorable revival ( performed with Oedipus Rex in a single evening ) starring Laurence Olivier as Mr Puff, opening at the New Theatre on 18 October 1945 as part of an Old Vic Theatre Company season.
The most famous player of the part in recent times was Laurence Olivier in his 1955 film version.
The first episode of the BBC television comedy Blackadder in part parodies the Olivier film, visually ( as in the crown motif ), Peter Cook's performance as a benevolent Richard, and by mangling Shakespearean text (" Now is the summer of our sweet content made o ' ercast winter by these Tudor clouds ...")
McDowell regularly turned up on British television productions in the 1970s in adaptations of theatre classics, one example being with Laurence Olivier in The Collection ( 1976 ), as part of the series Laurence Olivier Presents.
Leigh and her then lover Laurence Olivier ( later to be her husband ) were visiting as guests of Myron Selznick, who was also Olivier's agent, while Leigh was in Hollywood hoping for a part in Olivier's current movie, Wuthering Heights.
As part of the city's " Big Splash " festival, on 30 August 2010, 45 year-old French circus star Olivier Roustan from Toulouse, performed the highest ever wirewalk in Europe, along the top cable of the Newport City Footbridge.

Olivier and until
Kenneth Tynan asserted flatly of this performance that " no one has ever succeeded as Macbeth "— until Olivier.
Soon afterwards, she appeared in repertory theatre, until she found recognition in the West End for a series of stage performances, ultimately receiving an Olivier Award nomination for her performance in A Lie of the Mind, and in 1996, she is cited as " the greatest actress of our time in any medium " by one critic after she appeared in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival.
A critically acclaimed 2001 Chicago Shakespeare Theater production, directed by Gary Griffin, transferred to the West End Donmar Warehouse, where it ran from June 30, 2003 until September 6, 2003 and received the 2003 Olivier Award for Best Musical Production.
Leigh and Olivier divorced in 1960, and she worked sporadically in film and theatre until her death from tuberculosis in 1967.
She fell into a deep depression that hit the low point when she turned on Olivier, verbally and physically attacking him until she fell to the floor, sobbing.
Merivale joined her for a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Latin America that lasted from July 1961 until May 1962 ; and Leigh enjoyed positive reviews without sharing the spotlight with Olivier.
At Monaco, where his father had won five times in the 1960s, he led until his engine failed, curtailing his race and allowing Olivier Panis to take his only Formula One win.
They had been introduced to France from Genoa in the 16th century, and are featured in Olivier de Serres ' Théâtre de l ' agriculture ( 1600 ), as cauli-fiori " as the Italians call it, which are still rather rare in France ; they hold an honorable place in the garden because of their delicacy ", but they did not commonly appear on grand tables until the time of Louis XIV.
The Company was to remain at the Old Vic until 1976, when construction of the Olivier was complete.
Gielgud had triumphs in many other plays, notably his greatest popular success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ) ( a romantic version of the story of Richard II ), The Importance of Being Earnest which he first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1930 and which remained in his repertory until 1947, and a legendary production of Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ) which Gielgud directed and alternated the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with a young Laurence Olivier in his first professional Shakespearean leading role.
The escapees, who included Jourde, Henri Rochefort, Paschal Grousset, Olivier Pain, Achille Ballière, and Bastien Grandhille, boarded the boat under the cover of darkness and hid in the ship ’ s hold until they cleared the harbor.
* Hewitt lifted in the 2003 weightlifting event of Channel 4's The Games ( a celebrity athletics tournament ), setting a record which he held jointly with 2004 competitor Shane Lynch, until this was beaten in 2005 by Philip Olivier.
Nevertheless, the show transferred to London's West End on 11 April 1983 at the Lyric Theatre and ran until 22 October 1983, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical and another Olivier for Dickson's performance.
In 1944, the company was re-established in London with Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier as its stars, performing mainly at the New Theatre ( now the Noël Coward Theatre ) until the Old Vic was ready to re-open in 1950.
In 1963, the Old Vic company was dissolved and the new National Theatre Company, under the artistic direction of Lord Olivier, was based at the Old Vic until its own building was opened on the South Bank near Waterloo Bridge in 1976.
Terence Frisby's There's a Girl in My Soup, opening in 1966, ran for 1, 064 performances at the theatre, a record that was not surpassed until Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of the Olivier Award-winning comedy Daisy Pulls It Off by Densie Deegan opened in April 1983 to run for 1, 180 performances, the theatre's longest run.
After 7 races he replaced the injured Olivier Panis at Prost and impressed immediately, finishing fourth in Germany and even leading in Austria, looking set to finish second until his engine blew.
It was, however, almost 40 years until " velocipede " came into common usage as a generic term, with the launch of the first pedal-equipped bicycle, developed by Pierre Michaux, Pierre Lallement and the Olivier brothers in the 1860s.
It was announced in the German media on 25 May 2011 that Olivier had signed a three-year contract with SpVgg Greuther Fürth until June 2014.
He initially persevered with Osella's driver, Olivier Grouillard, until he tired of the Frenchman's reckless side and attitude problem, replacing him with Gabriele Tarquini.

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