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...course, that Merrick's critics up periscope and fire all tubes. He has been called "Typhoid David" and "Captain Hook" and "the Krishna Menon of Broadway." Director Tony Richardson says: "He's like a woman-sweet and bitchy at the same time." Anthony Quinn, who played in Merrick's Becket and Tchin-Tchin, recalls that when his vocal cords were so sore they were bleeding, Merrick snarled: "As long as you can talk, you go on." Says Quinn: "I may not like the son-of-a-bitch, but I've got to admit that he produces plays well and makes...
There are several unfortunate lines that from the way they are delivered, make you wonder if they are intended to refer to Burton's role in Becket. Control refers to Fiedler as the "acolyte who will one day stab the high priest in the back;" and Burton refers to the warden in the prison as the Archbishop of Canterbury. It's not the right kind of movie for clever allusions. The lines would have been better left...
THOMAS, by Shelley Mydans. A full-dress novel about Thomas Becket emphasizes pomp and pageantry, but also characterizes Becket as serving God as much as King Henry II serves the Devil...
THOMAS, by Shelley Mydans. A full-dress novel about Thomas Becket emphasizes pomp and pageantry, but also characterizes Becket as serving God as much as King Henry II serves the devil...
Ritual Murder. All of Becket's biographers have been borrowers, and Shelley Mydans is no exception. Through judicious, and admitted, dippings into Dr. Margaret Murray's books on medieval witchcraft, she throws a shadowy net of the supernatural around her story, suggesting that Henry II's great-uncle, King William Rufus, died in a ritual cabalistic murder in a sacred wood, and strongly hinting that Henry himself was doing the Devil's work as much as Becket was doing God's. Since Thomas is fiction, not history, Author Mydans need not apologize for her liberties...