Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BECKET. A stunningly filmed dramatization of the church-state conflict that becomes a death struggle between 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton) and King Henry II (Peter ÓToole...
...want to do gossip," Pamela says defensively. "I do opinion. Movie-star gossip isn't interesting unless you're having an affair with Richard Burton...
...otherwise the script is admirably loyal to the play. It sets the same scene: a rundown resort hotel in Mexico. It presents the same persons: the rampant tramp (Ava Gardner) who keeps the hotel for business and a couple of beach boys for pleasure; a renegade reverend (Richard Burton) expelled from his parish in Virginia for rutting in the rectory; a roundheeled teen-ager (Sue Lyon) who wishes she had been there; a peripatetic painter (Deborah Kerr) who sketches for her supper...
...with a harmless though peculiar passion for ladies' underwear. Huston, what's more keeps Iguana scuttling along at a right smart rate, and as always he shrewdly challenges his actors with delegated creativity. They all respond. Kerr lends charm and finesse to a meaching masochist. As for Burton, he makes more sense in this movie than he has in his last half-dozen efforts. He has a light in his eye, a line to his mouth, and the carriage of a man who believes in what he is doing...
...slimy 99° in Manhattan is strictly for lizards, but 2,500 hot-blooded types nevertheless turned out for the $100-a-seat premiere of Night of the Iguana at Philharmonic Hall. The acoustics were spotty as usual, the beef Puerto Vallarta even worse, and Mrs. Burton, in star-spangled blue, presided until Dickie showed up after curtains at Hamlet. But honors for the evening went to Ava Gardner, 41, in aqua satin, looking generations lovelier than the blowsy harridan she played onscreen. With the hordes outside hollering "We want Ava," she could hardly wait until after supper to flee...