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...Coward once went backstage and tartly informed the two leading players in one of his shows that their performance was "a triumph of nevermind over doesn't-matter." If Coward were around to chide Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton for a similar self-indulgence, he would have to trip them up on the way to the bank. Both are said to receive $70,000 per week. Coward may have written Private Lives but Midas cast this revival...
...favor. It involved the question of whether an internal CBS study of the show, inspired by a TV Guide article last May calling the program "a smear," was protected by a business or journalistic privilege of confidentiality. The study was conducted by CBS News Senior Executive Producer Burton Benjamin and was summarized by CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter in a memorandum made public in July. Drawing on Benjamin's study, Sauter conceded that the program had deviated from certain CBS News practices, but stood by its substance as essentially accurate. Westmoreland's lawyers, contending that Sauter...
...great moments, there are just as many disappointing ones. The cheap shots at trendy people and issues are just plain annoying--sure. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are nightmarish, but do they belong in the same litany of the horrifying as Vietnam and Hitler's diaries? Much of the material is tired and overdone--comments like "and they wanted us to grow up to like the characters on situation comedies," and "I just hated the downward mobility of the hippies" are just a little too convenient...
...United States." He kept his word. By midlife, Wilson was regarded as America's leading man of letters, a redoubtable scholar and a critic whose opinion could make or break a literary reputation. Critic Malcolm Cowley called him a combination of Dr. Johnson, Carlyle and Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century British explorer and linguist. Readers turned to his columns in The New Yorker, Cowley wrote, "to see what in God's name he would be doing next...
DIED. Phillip Burton, 56, eleven-term Democratic California Congressman whose skills at political dealmaking and infighting made him one of the most influential members of the House; of a ruptured aorta; in San Francisco. He called himself a "fighting liberal"; with the build, voice and vocabulary of a longshoreman from his San Francisco district, he fit the part. But he was pragmatic and persuasive in pursuing liberal goals, including higher minimum wages, mine safety, improved old age and disability benefits, and the creation of national parks. In 1976 he came within one vote of becoming majority leader, losing in part...