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...York City Opera debut exactly 25 years ago. This night, though, Strauss moved over for Sills. Only the second act was performed, and shortly after Sills embarked on the watch duet with Alan Titus, the stage was de-Straussed. "Beverly!" came a shriek from backstage. Enter Carol Burnett...
Evoking a witty television show they did together four years ago, Burnett and Sills swapped roles: Carol singing Un bel di from Madama Butterfly, Bubbles busting in with Stormy Weather. Dinah Shore came on with Blues in the Night; Mary Martin with My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Ethel Merman belted There's No Business Like Show Business. Leontyne Price sang a moving What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line; Renata Scotto decided to Over the Rainbow. Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm brought down the house with a Sillified version of I Want What I Want When I Want...
...grandson's winsome ways. Guinness, 66, who found himself "with a moist eye now and then" while reading his part, was beguiled by his young costar, Ricky Schroder, 10, who plays the Brooklyn tot turned aristocrat. (This is the third movie version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic: Mary Pickford played "Fauntleroy" in the 1921 film and Freddie Bartholomew in the 1936 remake.) Between takes at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, England, the lord and the knight discovered a mutual passion: fishing. Says Schroder of his new friend: "I like working with Alec. He's a nice...
...seems almost pointless to describe the plot. Anyone who has not been lost in a galaxy far, far away for the past decade or so could describe it sight unseen. Bobby Lee Burnett (Bruce Dem) prospers building taco stands. His wife ( Ann-Margret) is driving him slightly bananas, but she is pleasant enough beneath her Southern accent and her kittenish sexual ways. Bur nett has his 40th birthday and, having received his Betamax, wonders if that is all life has to offer. Next thing he knows he has bought a Porsche, had an affair with a Dallas Cowgirl and told...
Spring, however, brought a thaw in the official Soviet attitude toward the project. Managing Editor Ray Cave spent four days in Moscow speaking with top Soviet officials. Photographers Mark Meyer and David Burnett traveled thousands of miles across the country to take many of the issue's photographs. Reporter-Researcher John Kohan, who speaks fluent Russian and was making his fourth trip to the U.S.S.R., visited a psychiatric outpatient center, rode with an ambulance team, went behind the scenes at the old Moscow circus, spent a day at a tractor factory...