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...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...
...other members of the cast of The Blue Bird, the first joint Soviet-American film production, were too busy to take time off from their filming in Leningrad to watch the liftoff. Instead, they sent a fatuous message to the spacemen: "If you meet in space our small bluebird of happiness, please take it with you and return it to earth...
...that are revitalized by her treatment. She takes two over-recorded country blues songs like Robert Johnson's "Walking Blues" and Tommy Johnson's "Big Road" and gives them new energy through the tension between her voice and her searing guitar accompaniment. Her version of the Steve Stills song "Bluebird" (which has been turning up on WRKO lately) rocks and stomps without a let-up through a great Fifties rock sax break and a doo-wop vocal arrangement that elicits a whole new mood from the song...