Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andreas W. Teuber '64 will co-star with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a production of Marlow's Dr. Faustus at Oxford University this February...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Richard Burton and Barbara Rush in The Bramble Bush, the story of a doctor who returns to his home town to care for an incurably ill friend. Color...
...CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (RCA Victor). Sometimes listening to the album made from a musical is better than sitting through the show-but not this time. Alan Jay Lerner (who wrote the lyrics for the unforgettable My Fair Lady) and Burton Lane (who composed Finian's Rainbow's fine music) miss the Viennese schmaltz of a Hammerstein or a Loewe that would give these songs warmth. Even the soft-sharp voice of Barbara Harris cannot make up for the lack of feeling...
...Quixote-Cervantes, Richard Kiley is at least as good as Richard Burton in Camelot, and his singing voice is far better. He handles himself with grace and gallantry despite some crippling vulgarities in the Dale Wasserman script. Considering the pitch of her voice and the plunge of her neckline, Joan Diener is less an auditory than a visual treat. Irving Jacobson's Yiddish-accent Sancho Panza presents another problem...
Generally the viewers are asked for an opinion of the picture as a whole and the reasons for their classification, at other times to discuss the moral implications of a specific point. The Sandpiper, for example, raised a question about religion: Was there thematic justification for making Richard Burton an Episcopal priest rather than a layman? The consensus was yes, but the Legion gave the movie a disapproving B because the Christian (Burton) seems to lose out morally to the naturalist (Elizabeth Taylor...