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Featuring THE BEAUTIFUL BURTONS in their DEATH-DARING DEFIANCE of the FLASHING KNIVES! First Time Under the Big Top! The way Elizabeth and Richard Burton were telling it in London last week, they dropped in one night recently at a little local circus near their Mexican vacation house in Puerto Vallarta. Suddenly one of the performers was saying things in Spanish and smiling at Elizabeth, so she stepped graciously into the ring, thinking she was going to be introduced. "The next thing I knew, he was throwing daggers at her," said Richard. "What we didn't know," said Elizabeth...
...Villain is Richard Burton, playing a closet-queen gang leader named Vic Dakin. Alternately brutal and simpering, Dakin is the sort of chap who, when revealed as a multiple killer, is described by his neighbors as "a quiet, unassuming man" and whose unbelieving mother invariably laments: "But he always kept his room so clean." Vic, in fact, takes good care of his mum, conveying her to the Brighton sun, faithfully carrying in the afternoon tea. Between such assignments, he coshes opponents and irritably castrates a chap or two. In films like this, of course, there is no such thing...
Shot in color that may have been invented by Madame Tussaud and edited with a cleaver, The Villain is acceptable only as a glimpse of procedural tradition, the English bloodhound pursuing his accursed foe. Villain Burton's voice remains one of the most distinctive and controlled in the world. But he is no longer in charge of his face. The little piggy eyes glisten and swivel in a seamed and immobile background. Dissipation, alas, now seems less a simulacrum than a portrait...
...smothered by normalization. Dozens of controversial magazines and newspapers are banned. The only books that can be published are those "helpful to socialism." Even the Czechoslovak Union of Gymnasts has had to pledge to "intensify the political education of all members." It is no wonder that, as TIME Correspondent Burton Pines cabled after a visit to Prague: "The population has become lifeless beyond cynicism...
Krause traveled to Europe with the U.S. team after setting the world record and was given a birthday party by Princess Grace. The next summer at the AAU Nationals he had to settle for second in the mile behind Mike Burton...