Word: camelot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Robert Coote, 73, mannered and mustachioed British actor who originated the Broadway roles of Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady and King Pellinore in Camelot, and who, in life as well as onstage, played to a spitting T the part of the frightfully British good fellow; in his sleep, apparently of a heart attack; in New York City...
Kennedy's withdrawal clears the way for bolder Democrats to seek the party's nomination without incurring the wrath of devoted fans of his brothers' Camelot. On the two broad issues, creative Democratic alternatives--to the knee-jerk liberalism of Kennedy as well as to the simplistic atavism of Reagan--seem particularly...
...Entertainment Channel is offering a splendid re-creation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Angela Lansbury and George Hearn; Showtime has Paul Osborn's 1939 comedy Morning's at Seven, with four stars from its recent Broadway revival; and Home Box Office is airing Camelot, with Richard Harris as King Arthur in the throes of male menopause. Other transplanted Broadway shows will follow later this year: Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (Showtime), Medea with Zoe Caldwell and Judith Anderson (CBS Cable) and Long Day's Journey into Night with Ruby...
...with most pay-cable theater offerings, Camelot is a safe bet: a hit show that became a hit movie, with a big star treading the boards once more in an upscale TV dinner theater. Sweeney Todd is something more dangerous, and something close to thrilling. When produced in 1979, Sondheim's macabre opera was not the stuff theater-party hits are made on: a musical about a London barber who cuts his customers' throats, a stage set as bleak as Bedlam, a score full of tunes to scream on your way out of the theater. On cable this...
THEODORE H. WHITE'S final work in his legendary Making of the President series will make him seem a turncoat to many who once worshipped John F. Kennedy's Camelot with...