''DO you know what's killing Western democracy, George? Greed. And constipation. Moral, political, aesthetic. I hate America very deeply. The economic repression of the masses institutionalized.'' A diatribe overheard at Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street protests? No, think much earlier: a disenchanted British spy complaining about the...

Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness might have been the two greatest comic talents to come out of the postwar British cinema, but for the most part they lived in separate worlds. They appeared in only two films together: Alexander Mackendrick's ''Ladykillers,'' released at a time (1955) when Guinness was approaching the height of his fame, and Sellers...
ALEC GUINNESS: The Authorised Biography. By Piers Paul Read. (Simon & Schuster, $35.) This ploddingly thorough account of Alec Guinness's professional life traces his enigmatic career to multiple, often competing ambitions. Regarded as one of the greatest stage actors of the 20th century, Sir Alec (1914-2000) spent prime years playing ''demeaning...
thumb|Alec Guinness fotograferet i 1973
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2. april 1914 – 5. august 2000) var en Oscar og Tony Award-vindende engelsk skuespiller.
Han modtog en Oscar for sin rolle i filmen Broen over floden Kwai