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terrorists and left-wing terrorists, and
you end up having a feeling for every-
one's point of view, which is really
unusual," he says.
lan Arkin is a quiet guy.
"I haven't encountered that since
Droll. Witty. Laid-back.
Frank Capra and Jean Renoir. It has
You know his style. You've
the same sensibility in terms of feeling
seen him in any one of 30
for people."
films since his debut in 1966's The
Like his director, Arkin doesn't see (
Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are
this as a political film, rather one with
Coming! when he played a befuddled
a political framework. "You don't have
Soviet sailor.
to know anything about politics," he
When the camera stops rolling, he's
says. "I don't care about politics. In
supposedly a barrel of laughs. That
fact, political films bore me to death."
may be true among friends and col-
Digging into feelings and recogniz-
leagues, but he's clearly a man who
ing aspects of humanity is what it's all
doesn't like to talk about himself to
about for this veteran of Chicago's
the press.
Second City, stage (Enter Laughing
But talk about himself he must to
and Luv), films and television.
promote his new film, Four Days in
But Arkin was frankly surprised he
September, a political thriller based on
was cast as the staid, prop-
er, very dignified
Ambassador Charles Burke
Elbrick.
"I never thought of
myself in those terms," he
says. "But I was delighted
that Bruno thought to use
me. My image of myself is
that people see me as the
character who's falling apart
at the seams all the time."
Arkin was born in New
York City in 1934. He is
the father of sons Adam
Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres and Alan Arkin in
Arkin ("Chicago Hope")
Bruno Barreto "Four Days in September"
and Matthew Arkin by his
first wife, Jeremy Yaffe, and
Anthony Arkin by Barbara Dana,
the true story of the 1969 kidnapping
whom he married in 1965. The Jewish
of the American ambassador to Brazil
performer knew he wanted to be an
by a group of young revolutionaries.
actor when he was 5.
The film, with Brazilian director
His father was a painter and a
Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two
writer, and his mother taught school.
'Husbands) at the helm, stars Arkin as
So, at this incredibly young age, Alan
the ambassador and is Brazil's Academy
began to observe everything and
Award entry for Best Foreign Film.
everyone around him.
A consummate actor who can play
In a radio interview, he spoke of an
it funny or straight, Arkin was drawn
incident that he remembers took place
to this project because of its paradox
before he was 10. "My mother was
and ambiguity.
talking to a friend of hers who had
"Here you have a film about
just
been through some kind of
American diplomats, right-wing junta
tragedy, and I was just sitting, drawing
Sandra Kreiswirth writes for Copley
on the floor while they were going
News Service.
through this.

SANDRA KREISWIRTH
Special to The Jewish News

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