Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scores were hurt. Confused by new work rules that threatened to reduce their income and enraged by increases in food prices, workers looted shops and put Communist Party headquarters in several cities to the torch. That was not half so bad as what nearly happened, reports TIME Correspondent Burton Pines, who has just returned from Poland...
...Jones only to find his voice failing under the strain. For those repulsed by Harris' posturing as King Arthur in Camelot, Cromwell will hold only one surprise: in between the musical and the historical epic, Harris has lost his ability to speak. For a second-string Richard Burton, such and impairment is obviously of a high order, especially since Harris' own brand of acting is so mannered and monochromatic. He stalks through this film scowling a large part of the time (perhaps he supposes Puritans are not to smile, just as cuckolded Kings are not to rise above buffoonery). When...
...should quit and raise cats." But would that be enough to support the family autos? The Shepperton Studios parking lot is enhanced these days by a green Rolls-Royce belonging to Liz, a black one owned by Caine-and a white model registered in the name of Richard Burton, who was in London filming Villain...
...Fall Off the Mountain" different from the usual drivel is that Shirley wrote it herself-no ghost, no collaborator, no pix and, alas, no visible editor. Though her prose is occasionally awful, it can also be crisp and energetic. The lady really is something of a latter-day Richard Burton-the explorer, that is. She has been trapped in a coup d'état in the remote kingdom of Bhutan. She has delivered a Masai baby in Kenya. In Bangkok she saw Buddhist parents "with static expressions watch their baby drown...
...what about a cast? Producer Twain thought, rightly (after the film), that James Mason was wrong for Humbert. Richard Burton was an early choice, but after one musical (Lerner's Camelof), Burton decided: "I have no desire to repeat this fascinating but exacting experiment." In his place will go John Neville, 45, a first-rank British actor. "When I was first approached," he admits, "my feeling was that I didn't see how it could be done with taste...