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...BLUEBEARD...
Lesser ladies may slide past their 40th birthdays with nothing but a private sob or two to mark the occasion. Not Elizabeth Taylor. In Budapest, where Husband Richard Burton is making a movie called Bluebeard, the beautiful 40-year-old invited some 200 friends in from all over the world for a couple of days of drinking and dancing and laughing and looking at the birthday girl and her jewels. The lat est Elizabethan dazzler was a present from Burton: the flat, heart-shaped diamond given by 17th century Indian Shah Jahan to his wife, Mumtaz Mahal -for whom...
...home, police found the entrance to a windowless room containing books on black magic and witchcraft, a nail-studded raincoat, and an altar draped with black velvet. During his five-day trial, it came out that Paisnel believed that he was a descendant of Gilles de Rais, the original Bluebeard. De Rais was hanged in 1440 after admitting that he had murdered something like 200 children whom he had lured to his castle in France "for my daily pleasures...
...that, he added, "Alexander Portnoy and I are both Jewish." Worst of all, Portnoy's business partner is named Victor Branli, and branler is the French slang verb for masturbate. Branli, too, was unsettled. "Personally," he said, "I'd rather the confusion was with a Bluebeard than with a Portnoy...
...Harvard Film Study--"Bluebeard" by Edgar G. Ulmer and "I've Always Loved You" by Frank Borzage, Carpenter Center Lecture Hall. Admission...