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Tyson, a sophomore safety who has performed surprisingly well, knew last Spring that Coach John Yovicsin considered him in the Crimson's defensive plans. So Tyson got together with Ron Burton, now a sophomore star quarter-back for Colgate, and worked daily on the fundamentals of pass defense...
They began with running and weight-lifting, just as they did as backfield mates at Montclair (N.J.) High School two years ago. Soon, they were out on the high school field for an hour and a half before dark every weeknight. Tyson would start backpedaling, and Burton would fire the ball a few feet to one side of him or the other. Over and over again...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Bloodletting in the groves of academe. Two faculty couples (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal) cut each other up with words, words and more words in a deft screen version of Edward Albee's play...
...which, ironically, nearly went bankrupt when TV started. Last week ABC and CBS together agreed to pay $92 million for 110 movies from 20th Century-Fox, Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Top (and record) payout was ABC's $5,000,-000 for two showings in 1971 of the Burton-Taylor film Cleopatra. 20th Century-Fox, after fretting over the most costly ($31 million) production in movie history, can now thank TV for putting Cleo into the black...
Graceless, monotonous, unfaithful to its source, Hamlet is less tragedy than catastrophe in the hands of Grigory Kozintzev. This is far inferior to the Olivier and Burton filmed Hamlets, and it is less relevant to Shakespeare's art than both Orson Welles's diced-up Othello, which took its script from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Sergei Youtkevich's Othello, which like the present film could display its poetry only in subtitles...