Word: abbeys
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...interlude on the screen with a white girl in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? "I'd much rather have romantic interludes with Negro girls." So he dreamed up a plot, handed it over to Screen Writer Robert Alan Aurthur, and stepped into the leading role opposite Abbey Lincoln in For Love...
...last attempt to do him honor in England's Westminster Abbey ended in 1924 when the then dean, Dr. Herbert E. Ryle, snorted that "his openly dissolute life and licentious verse earned him a worldwide reputation for immorality." Yet in today's easygoing society, George Gordon Lord Byron seems less of a satyr than a swinger; so a group of Byron buffs led by Derek Parker, editor of the Poetry Review, and Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis have petitioned that he receive his proper niche in the abbey's Poets' Corner. Their word was good enough...
...good film is one that makes money," concludes Sack. Don't knock the profit motive. It has permitted Ben Sack to bring new life to the Boston theatre district. Certainly, Sack's success has encouraged the creation of Boston's new independent theatres like the Abbey and the Charles Cinema. Sack makes no promises about his films. You can be sure that the popcorn will be buttered better, even if the film isn't quite up to par. And when your great-grandson gulps down his soma and runs out for a night at the "feelies," you can also...
EASTER SUNDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 11 a.m.-noon). Traditional Easter Sunday service at London's Westminster Abbey...
...like a spoiled child of power, too unsophisticated not to tell it as it really was. Even her coronation is reduced to precise physical proportions: "I took the orb in my left hand and the scepter in my right-and thus loaded, I proceeded out of the abbey, which resounded with cheers...