European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse To matter How frequent Hla films him t scene from the if test one surrender you Seldom see the Stone Michael Caine twice la one wry he s throwback to old hate Hollywood when Start made movies in ceaseless Stream. Vet ha1 not the kind of alar who always plays himself. Who is the real Michael Caine by Gregory Jensen United press International Ichael Caine is a bit puzzled these Days by the sudden spate of movies showing across the United Stales All starring Michael Caine. In 10 weeks they brought out All the pictures i be done in two years he said in amazement and everybody says id me boy you work a lot Don l a and i say no it s just Hal " he leaves the sentence unfinished As Well he might. For yes Caine does work a Tot probably no other movie Star is More in demand. Few other superstars match his output of 62 movies in 26 years. Bui Caine. Silting recently in a London restaurant he partly owns insists he Only makes 2 i films a year on average and this year 1 yet he could nol pick up his Academy award Tor Hannah and her Sisters because he was away Ming another jaws. His latest movie surrender comes hard upon the fourth protocol and the whistle Blower. They Veall come out Caine a air. I Don l know Why they do that. And each picture hurts the other one. People say i be just seen two Michael Caine dims Lei s go see somebody else " Caine is a simple Delight to meet completely natural the opposite of Sel important a great storyteller. He s like a Street Market trader in London s East end in Grammatic English careless accent non Slop Patter without Slick glib Ness. Just a Lovely Bloke who happens to be one of the world s Best known faces no Mailer How frequent his films however you Seldom see the same Michael Caine twice. In one Way he s a throwback to old time Hollywood when stars made movies in a ceaseless Stream. Yet he s nol the kind of Star who always plays himself. I m sort of a hybrid tie said of a personality actor a leading Man and a character actor i go in and out of All those things Al any Given Lime. Perhaps that s Why 1 gel so Many parts. Because i am versatile. I know he Doorn l look 54 his hair looks Crisp like Wavy shredded wheal. His gaze is unwinding came never Ever blinks Belore the camera it was the first film acting lesson to Learned. His 6-loot-2 Inch bulk is impressive and his face is not ravaged but . Just now his Pale eyebrows Arch with animation Over the new movie he is in London to promote. Tome surrender is the answer Toa sort of dream he said i be always wanted to do the quintessential american romantic comedy and that s Hal this is it s what they used local before the War screwball comedy and i be always wanted to do thai " surrender is a polished Oft Beal Gotan Globus production Willen and directed by Jerry Belson. Whose hero guess who is a ran Stop disaster a la women until he becomes literally tied to a mild Kook played by double Oscar Winne Sally Field i really really enjoyed in came said when i finally saw it i just sat there entranced and i can Tell you i m not entranced very often with a lot of what i which is typical. Caine is sell analytic to the Point of Lanala cism. I am very very objective about whal i do he interjected at one Point. Simply ask Why he s so much in demand and you be an analysis. I think because i seem to represent people As they Are rather than a movie Star. I get All the weirdos and All those if Somo Lhing s very difficult they give it to me. Plus another thing is t think i can say without fear of conceit or something thai i m extremely professional. I never hold up the production i never Don t know my lines i m very fast and i m always there you Don l have logo looking for me i m never drunk or whatever. You Don t realize How much thai counts Caine thinks about such things. Overlying everything in his Complex character is a consummate craftsmanship. He ponders deeply and hard Over every Liny Donail of making movies. I Dye my eyelashes he said Al another Point. I Vegol Blond lashes and unless you Dye them your eyes Don l show. Take the eyes off the lace and you be got nothing if you can i see your eyes you might As Well be in a radio this year Caine interrupted his usual non Stop movie making for a May november break devoted to his other current passion building the Lyscol English Liles Tyte he never really knew. I suppose you re gelling older you know he said. I suppose it s coming Back to tools " he and his with Shakira. 37. Have left Hollywood to put Down permanent roots Wilh to branches a 300 year old House on the River thames jeep in the English Countryside. And a Slung my a ailment Sittl being Buill in London also on the thames it s the Best of Bolh possible worlds. I was always enchanted by living right in the Middle of a big came said and plus. I live this English country life which i adore because i Gicz up Wilh it i m a Cockney kid from the London slums but i was evacuated Dunn world War 11 onto a Arm when i was 6 and i came Home when i was 12. And that Tomed me. Tamed my ideas " he minds this move to be final because i have travelled i be been travelling Lor 2g years now in the monday october 26, 1967 movies. I worked out the other Day that i be spent 11 i years in hotel rooms a Sharp High pitched laugh startles the restaurant s waiters. Partly Caine s return to England is to enable him to create his own production company making sort of indigenous subjects smaller films " besides the British film Industry is beginning to move again and i thought maybe i could help. Hollywood certainly does l need my and there was another overriding need. I fell victim to almost terminal homesickness he said. I mean los Angeles is wonderful and i had a great great time Shete got no grumbles. I m nol Gonna leave and then Start to kick Hollywood. I never met any artificial people or Linsel people my years in los Angeles were the Best thing i Ever did in my Lite. Ii was the greatest thing for me. And plus. I m a great americ Nophile i adore America. 1 adore americans i m very pro american and i get Inlo a lol of trouble Here for in. La s funny you know because i lived in los Angeles Lor 8 it years and i never made one movie i Here and directly i said i was Gonna go Back Home they gave me surrender and we made it in Caine relishes such ironies. He delights in idling of his Lesl Lor Zuni his breakthrough Novio role Thep i Ducer Sandil was the worst blankly lest i Ever saw it came says to asked then what Day giving me the part Lor and the producer replied. Well there s no one else and to leave for South Africa in 36 characteristically not once in a Long conversation did came mention the Academy award he won Atler two earlier nominations Hajn and he Sisters he said really paid Oil because in Biou Ghl him surrender nol his Oscar i think this dim will be the digest to o list dim i Ever did m my whole Saint said it 5 what i Call a fool Good movie you Cam out of in looting Good " next is a spoof Sheilon Holmes movie collect Trio imposter of Baker St Cut in it further Hilure. While he Nurl Flos his new English roots. Pic Heel Dine has no Mon Linof lolling his prospective production company turn him Inlo a More occur ii of i d like to grow old disgracefully in front of the he said i shall ofic in other Peoples the stars and stripes Page 17
