Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep-bosomed, lynx-eyed Peruvian songstress, now retired, who also had a four-octave range. * The rest of the top ten, in order: Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon, Richard Burton, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Doris Day, Paul Newman, and Elvis Presley...
...smooth wall of the playroom if it's a good movie, on the brick wall of the living room if it's bad." She cares little for haute couture. Dory Previn charitably describes Julie's wardrobe as "old-fashioned"; the less charitable call it "frumpish." Burton's exwife, Sybil Christopher, adds that "Julie is hopeless with servants, and they take advantage of her. She ends up pouring their...
...become a noted stage and costume designer in London, and for a brief moment Julie considered retiring. "But," as Tony says, "work was the only thing she knew." And besides, Moss Hart, with Lerner and Frederick Loewe, authors of My Fair Lady, wanted Julie to play opposite Burton in Camelot, a stylish retelling of the Arthurian legend. Camelot lacked the magic of Fair Lady, but audiences loved it. Julie had a ball too. Recalls Burton: "One night a large, woolly dog in the show elected to empty himself in a huge lump in center stage. In full view...
Offstage as well. Once Burton phoned her out of the blue: "I don't think you should say those awful things about me," he kidded. "I hear you said you were the only leading lady I hadn't slept with." Replied Julie sweetly: "Richard, do you think that I'd want that sort of thing to get around?" But, inevitably, the kidding had to stop. Camelot, despite the big names, did not live up to the extravagant expectations; it was too much a light opera, too little a musical comedy. Julie decamped after 18 months...
With the added electives, humanities courses now account for nearly half the Point's curriculum. The reason, says Lieut. Colonel Wilfred Burton, who teaches English, is that the Army exists to defend freedom and "preserve the dignity of man," but to do that, its officers must first "know the nature of man." Burton exposes students to such contemporary writers as W. H. Auden and Edward Albee, plays devil's advocate by roaring at his classes: "Army officers are just machines, aren't they? If they're told to go out and massacre the innocents, they...