Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). ABC's superb series, based on Churchill's war memoirs, moves to the story of the early Japanese victories in the Pacific war. Richard Burton speaks Churchill's words...
...readable but perhaps too brief account of those redoubtable Victorians-Burton, Speke, Stanley, Livingstone, Gordon, Kitchener-who explored the upper reaches of the Nile, taking pestilence and polygamy as they found them...
Among the musicals, Camelot compensates for a weak book with its opulent sets, some fine Lerner-Loewe tunes and Star Richard Burton. Do Re Mi, a Runyonesque piece about jukebox racketeering, is nearly salvaged by the inspired antics of Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker...
This genteel exercise in white slavery occurred in the home of Italian Ambassador to the U.N. Egidio Ortona at an auction to raise money for Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. Sold off with Burton and several minor works by Chagall and Tiepolo were Composer Menotti himself (for $501. to Novelist Pati Hill) and Conductor Thom as Schippers, who brought a mere $325 from Jean Feldman, ex-wife of Agent Charles Feldman. Schippers later registered a complaint with Maxwell: "Traitor, $350 for only an actor!" This week the proud owners were scheduled to feed their...
...musicals, Camelot is very much worth seeing for "the splendor of its sets, the best of its Lerner-Loewe tunes and its stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower...