![]() ![]() That leads into the two-hour finale of Revenge, a show that has spent its second year convincing viewers they were foolish to watch the first one. If you haven't spotted mermaids, lions or flying elephants yet, don't worry - give the show long enough, and you will. Two ABC series reach their season finales, starting with Once Upon a Time, which seems to be working on an unusual antidote to cancellation: Cram in every single Disney character possible, from Belle to Peter Pan and Captain Hook. Once Upon a Time/Revenge | ABC, 8/9 ET/PT And now that it's a mere TV show, rather than a media sensation, those of us who don't want to watch can ignore it in peace. It's not the hit it once was (most hits eventually aren't), but it still has more fans than most such shows, and it still seems to be keeping them happy. His two survivors, his sons, Lawrence and Vincent.The granddaddy of the reality craze once again takes over CBS Sunday for the grand finale of its 26th season - which is a lot of castaways, beaches and torches. His last wife, the late Joan Tetzel, had one of the major roles in “I Remember Mama.” His fourth, the former Florence Meyer, was the daughter of the late Eugene Meyer, the financier and publisher of The Washington Post. Homolka, who had lived in New York City for about 15 years, decided to move to Sussex about 12 years ago because he decided he had had enough of city life. On television, he was seen as Nikita Khrushchev in the Playhouse 90 production “The Plot to Kill Stalin,” as well as in Rod Serling's “In the Presence of Mine Enemies,” Arthur Koestler's “Darkness at Noon” and Sydney Lumet's “Rashomon,” having already been part of the stage production of that play. In the years in between, his screen credits also included Hitchcock's “I Married a Murderer,” “The Key” with Sophia Loren, “The Seven Year Itch” with Marilyn Monroe, the 1956 blockbuster “War and Peace,” “Anna Lucasta” with Paulette Goddard, “Seven Sinners” with Marlene Dietrich and “The Dreyfus Case” with Fritz Kortner. ![]() Homolka it was like coming full circle back to the Russian general Ye’ played for UFA in Germany in the late 1920's. ![]() Homoika played the Soviet nemesis of Michael Caine, the hapless British spy. In the 1966 film “Funeral in Berlin.” N1r. On Broadway, before his bestknown role in “I Remember Mama,” he was in “Grey Farm” and “The Innocent Voyage.”Īmong his many movies-in which he appeared with Katharine Hepburn, Gary cooper, Walter Huston, Ingrid Bergman, Luise Rainer, Charles Boyer, Margaret Leighton and Irene Dunne-were “Ebb Tide.” “Mission to Moscow,” “The Madwoman of Chaillot,” “Rage in Heaven” and “Ball of Fire.” Homolka appeared were works by Shakespeare, Shaw, O'Neill. Maybe it is the eyes twinkling in the porcine face-sly, intelligent, scrutinizing eyes.”Īmong the plays in which Mr. Maybe it is the good talk which he practices with the ease and fluency of a man who is accustomed to good talk. ![]() One reporter wrote: “There is something likeable about Oscar Homolka. Homolka not only got along well with producers and directors but also charmed interviewers. “He once told us that in Vienna, where he was born, he had considered becoming a painter before he became an actor. “He never talked much about the different styles of acting,” said his son yesterday. Homolka had been in at last 100 movies and as many television shows. He once estimated that by the time he was 30 he had appeared in more than 400 plays. Whether he was the sinister theater owner terrorizing London in the Hitchcock film “The Woman Alone,” or the blustering uncle in the warm play “I Remember Mama,” he apnroached his job as a professional. Homolka did not worry about styles of acting. ![]()
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