One was a struggling writer adapting a Hemingway story for television; the other was that movie's star, still smarting from the sword-and-sandal bomb the Silver Chalice.

当年他们两人一个是在将海明威的作品改编成电视剧，勉强糊口的作家；另一个是参演过古装动作大作《圣杯》的电影明星。

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Paul Newman, for instance, is just as riveting in Nobody's Fool as he was forty years earlier in The Silver Chalice.

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The next year he made his first Hollywood film, "The Silver Chalice, " a bomb that he mocked for the rest of his life.

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Kneeling on the stone floor as the 12 youngsters sat above him, the 76-year-old Francis poured water from a silver chalice over each foot, dried it with a simple cotton towel and then bent over to kiss each one.

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