Word: bluebird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George de la Pena, 22. Soloist, American Ballet Theater. The slight (5 ft. 9 in., 140 lbs.) De la Pena's long suit is a powerful sense of theater. At A.B.T. he has danced such roles as the Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty, a sailor in Fancy Free and the Nutcracker prince. A high point came last year when he played the old dollmaker in Coppélia. A curtain-time substitute, he gave a dark, almost mystical performance that New York balletomanes still prize...
...Burkhardt is a wonderfully pert ingenue, an island of sanity at sea. Kevin Usher as the gangster Moonface gives a performance that Bert Lahr would have loved, full of snarls that melt into whimpers, and with a deadpan that borders on hysteria. During his amusing solo, "Be Like the Bluebird," his playful vocal tricks give way to a voice as soaring as any in the cast. Phoebe Green's moll Bonnie, suggests the roll of the ocean all by herself, like a slightly underfilled waterbed: push on the thrust-out derriere and the chest doubles in size. This kind...
...sulky when he suggested it might be dangerous for her. (The thought must have amused horse fancier Taylor, who rode to fame aboard National Velvet in 1944.) By week's end, friends of Zahedi were suggesting the ambassador was genuinely smitten and that Liz was the bluebird of happiness...
...Taylor, 43, and Richard Burton, 49, appear strong enough for a second try. "This is not a trial reconciliation, it is permanent," proclaimed Pressagent John Springer of his clients, who met in Switzerland last week following Taylor's six-month tour in Russia for the filming of The Bluebird. With Taylor apparently having parked her current beau, Used Car Dealer Harry Wynberg, she and Burton have planned a trip to Israel to test their reborn romance. For the time being the couple are acting coy about another wedding. At the moment, said a friend, marriage "is a very private...
...filming of The Bluebird, the first full-length movie collaboration between the Soviet Union and the U.S., has gone a lot less smoothly than hoped. The picture, filmed in Leningrad and based on Maurice Maeterlinck's classic fairy tale, first faltered when the Russian cinematographer overexposed much of the early film and had to be replaced. Then one U.S. star (James Coco) dropped out for gall-bladder surgery and another (Elizabeth Taylor) fled to a London hospital suffering from amoebic dysentery. Last week everything seemed back in focus as members of the crews and cast gathered at the Leningrad...