Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROBE (ABC, 8-10:30 p.m.). A movie adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 novel. Richard Burton plays Marcellus Gallic, the Roman tribune tormented by guilt about the Crucifixion...
...said, "If you do it, I will." The other said, "If you do it, I will," and before anyone could say nay, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton had agreed to play the unlikely roles of two homosexuals in the film version of Charles Dyer's play, Staircase. "I'm really thrilled about it and I think Richard is too," said Harrison, who will appear as Charles the transvestite. Quite a shift for the fellow the gals call Sexy Rexy. "But it's one of those things one has to take a chance on," said Harrison...
...quite an adjustment for anybody. Added to that was the pressure of starting work on her second major film role in Secret Ceremony. So Mia Farrow, 23, had a problem. It got out of hand after Mia, in her mini mini, danced until the wee hours at a Burton party at London's Dorchester Hotel, then turned up absent from the scene next morning. After a couple of days, the film makers dispatched an emissary to a private psychiatric clinic in Middlesex. No Mia, and a clinic spokesman refused to say whether she had been there or even what...
...GARY BURTON QUARTET: LOFTY FAKE ANAGRAM (RCA Victor). Despite its put-on-pop title, this album is a persuasive blend of jazz and pop. Burton's mallets dance over the vibes knocking out masterly, improvised melodies. Occasionally he forays into the fugue, as in Lines, where Larry Coryell's country-blues guitar plays an especially effective counterpoint. Steve Swallow on bass provides a mellow underpinning, while Drummer Bobby Moses adds cymbal-splashes of color. On swiftly paced tracks such as June the 15, 1967, their rapid notes become a braided stream of bright sound...
...named Cathy and Heathcliffe. Gayle simply packed the tiny, heavily tranquilized beasts in a carryall and lugged them past customs at London Airport. Some such illegal dodge was necessary to get around England's strict six-month waiting period for animal immigrants, which recently forced Richard and Liz Burton to charter a yacht to house their animals during a visit. The less expensive tote bag was Gayle's own idea. So was her final coup-getting a British European Airways steward to carry the bag for her as she left London for Majorca...