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Wince & Wait. By that time, Richard Burton was a long way from the Old Vic. As his stage career fanned to promise and even moments of greatness, he salted his interludes with movies. Everyone does this. Sir Laurence Olivier was in Spartacus. But Burton's serious work on the stage began to atrophy as he gave himself increasingly to films, playing opposite an odd assortment of ladies?Lana Turner, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Simmons?in weak pictures wherein he was miscast. Given his professional fears and the economic spareness of his beginnings, it is not hard to understand...
...paid $50,000 to get him out of it; also, Writer-Director Joe Mankiewicz promised him "a playable part." Fox's $40 million movie has been seen by no one and will not be until its release in June. But judging by the script, Mankiewicz did indeed give Burton a playable part. Since most of the scripting took place as Cleopatra was being shot, Writer Mankiewicz?in his approach to each character?knew just whose brain, tongue, and talent he was writing for, and it is not surprising that Burton has the most interesting role. Much of the time...
...edges toward the Elizabethan, Richard Burton's adoptive world, and the study of character develops an interesting flair with Mankiewicz' concept of a long-overshadow Antony who comes to hate the very name of Caesar...
...Richard Burton tries to avoid seeing his own movies. Will he see Cleopatra...
...place again as long as I live," he says. He has had his fill of flashbulbs in the dead of night, visiting "priests" with cameras under their cassocks, spoiled beans, stomach pumps, sleeping pills, Jewish singers, German orphans, and old friends who mail him headlines that say FUN?BURTON. But he has come away with an interesting souvenir?this riggish, Anglo-Egyptian dish of his, whom he has installed in a rooftop suite in London's Dorchester. He is not at all sure what to do with...