Face of the Day
When I first gazed on this photo I thought it was Alan Bates. When I read the caption (“Rowan Atkinson”) I thought: Who he? Then I looked closely and realized that Rowan Atkinson is Mr. Bean, the lips-pursing little gnome who has long been a sensation in Europe but never really caught on big in America. He’s better known here for playing the inexperienced priest in “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” Anyway, Atkinson is about to play the part that took Dickens as close as comfortable to pedophilia: Fagin in “Oliver!”
