Word: becket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Becket is a cerebral film spectacle based on the play by Jean Anouilh, in which English history wars with an impudent Gallic wit. Director Peter Glenville has flung the drama onto the screen like a vast Bayeux tapestry, held fast with the lancet-sharp performances of Peter O'Toole as Henry II, England's first Plantagenet ruler, and of Richard Burton as the 12th century martyr Thomas Becket. Henry loved Becket, raised him to eminence as Archbishop of Canterbury, then lost his onetime friend in a struggle between church and state that ended with Becket's murder...
...country club. The round pavilion with glass walls and a cookie-cutter roof juts out from a circular pedestal, and might be overlooking the swimming pool and the 18th hole instead of the corner of Century Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue. But by some medieval quirk, Welton Becket & Associates has designed the entrances as bridges over a moat...
Anouilh, best known in the U.S. for Becket and The Lark, likes to divide his plays into categories, calling some "black," like Antigone, some "rose," like Time Remembered, others "brillant" (sparklingly theatrical mixtures of the light and dark), like The Rehearsal, and still others "grating"-Waltz of the Toreadors. But everything Anouilh does springs from a pervading and indivisible pessimism. He is a cynic uncongealed: the wound remains open. Abandoned ideals and buoyancies can be seen within. And when he turns on the times, his bite is bitter: "Give us a bit more comfort! That's our battle...
...airfield, a 27-acre, man-made lake with marina, boats, and an island on which a smaller lake is stocked for fishing, a night-lighted golf course and driving range, a shopping center, two motels, a restaurant, two swimming pools, and a Congregational church. And Los Angeles Architect Welton Becket is building a 260-acre Century City on the old 20th Century-Fox lot near Beverly Hills, which will contain 20 office buildings, 20 high-rise apartment houses, an 800-room hotel, a large regional shopping center and a resident population of 12,000 (a working population...
Born. To Peter O'Toole, 29, fast-rising Irish cinemactor (Lawrence of Arabia), currently making Becket with Richard Burton, and Welsh Actress Sian Phillips, 28: a second child, second daughter; in Dublin...