Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally, there is an anecdote that seems mostly for guffaws but actually tells a lot about the people who are center stage in our times. So Richard Burton recalls, for the cover story in SHOW BUSINESS, how his wife and Sandy Dennis used to engage in belching contests. "Elizabeth is also a good belcher," said her husband, "so they had competitions, but Sandy nearly always won for number and volume...
Sandy, then and still, belches throughout rehearsals. "Gigantic belches," recalls Burton. "I mean enormous ones, like a drunken sailor. Elizabeth is also a good belcher, so they had competitions, but Sandy nearly always won for number and volume." Musing over Dennis the Retired Menace last week while shooting an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Milk Train in Sardinia, Richard and Elizabeth seemed about to replay Edward Albee's "Get the Guest." Then Liz turned to Richard and purred: "It's awful, dear, but I'm afraid we just can't find anything nasty to say about...
George Segal, cast as her husband, pronounced Sandy "100% disciplined." Unlike the run of Hollywood girls he had played opposite, he found that stage-steeped Dennis "really listens; she isn't just waiting to speak. You are really talking to someone." Richard Burton found her "exceptionally professional." Or as Elizabeth Taylor put it, "terrifyingly professional." Which doesn't suggest, added Liz, that Sandy isn't "rather nitty at times-I mean she is not like your next-door neighbor...
...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. The author maps the life of the flamboyant Victorian explorer, linguist and erotologist and concludes that his real passion was not for geographical discovery "but for the hidden...
...rhythmic interjections, sometimes bending tones into piercing dissonances, sometimes dissolving into trills or fluttery tremolos. Jazz Critic Whitney Balliett describes Steig's musical message as "messianic, for it suggests the way out of the gloomy muddle that jazz has fallen into." > Larry Coryell, 24, guitarist in the Gary Burton Quartet. Coryell builds exciting, unpredictable solos with clusters of freshly turned chords, tantalizing silences, sudden vaulting runs leading into intense twangings, and the carefully manipulated drone of feedback from his amplifier. Through it all run echoes of the blues and country music he learned as a boy in Texas...