Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-1 1 p.m.). Taylor and Burton discover that "this marriage can be saved" if they are marooned at an airport long enough in The V.I.P.s...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette...
...ROBE (ABC, 7-9:30 p.m.). Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Richard Boone and Michael Rennie star in this (1953) version of the Lloyd...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette...
...better performances, Taylor makes Kate seem the ideal bawd of Avon-a creature of beauty with a voice shrieking howls and imprecations. Whenever Liz strains at the Elizabethan, the camera shifts to Burton, who catches the cadences of iambic pentameter with inborn ease. As the lickerish and liquorish Petruchio, Burton pursues his Kate with a weary, beery smile that promises temptation and trouble. An inspired chase across rooftops and into piles of fleece establishes him as a kind of King Leer, the supreme embodiment of a raffish comic hero...