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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Two faculty couples turn an after-hours party into a marital Armageddon, with the same corrosive language used in Edward Albee's Broadway hit. As hosts, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor make a sizzling night...
With Wife Dory, a former MGM lyricist, he is committed to write an 18-song musical score for Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a movie starring Richard Burton. And he will score two films, The Graduate and Catch-22, directed by his close pal Mike Nichols. Previn figures that he can do all this with half of one hand, while bearing down on stage, podium and recording studio. "Now, at least, I am responsible for my own mistakes," he says. "It's better than all those years when I was going from Lassie to Debbie Reynolds." Of course, between the dogs...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee's drama about a venomous all-night orgy on faculty row has reached the screen with every four-letter word intact. And Elizabeth Taylor, playing bitch-wife to Richard Burton's hagridden husband, proves that there is powerhouse talent on both sides of the family...
While in the play Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen had a relatively equal impact on the audience, Burton as Martha's husband George takes over completely. The only possible complaint about his performance is that it makes the others look excessively pedestrian by contrast...
...George, the caustic, cynical master of revels, Burton is superb, shrewdly measuring out his powerhouse talent in a part written for a far less heroic actor. A muffled drum sounded against the din of crashing china, he joylessly endures pain and joylessly inflicts it with the hollow stare of a man so sick of life that he cannot even relish his final vindictive triumph...