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Actor Burton started things off with a dramatic recital of the closing lines from Camelot ("Don't let it be forgot"). Then he brought on his wife, offering the viewing public more square inches of Elizabeth Taylor than have ever been seen before onscreen. Displaying a ballooning figure that erupted from a low-cut red dress, Liz appeared somewhat disarrayed, as if she had just left a hot, messy kitchen to answer the front door. Burton disclosed that his wife had been invited by Oxford University to play Helen of Troy, "if," giggled Liz, "I lose 20 pounds." Sammy...
...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...
...meantime Davis stays up late and dreams aloud: "I'm not going to do a variety show. I'm going to do a show with variety. No sketches and no bad jokes. When Richard and Liz come on the show, he's going to do Camelot, and she's going to watch. When Sean Connery comes on, he's going to sing There Is Nothing Like a Dame the way he used to do when he was a chorus boy in London...
...music. What he has proved is that he is the sort of writer who needs a writer. When he leaned on Bernard Shaw, he produced the book for the musical masterpiece My Fair Lady With the late T. H. White to guide his pen, he wrote the passable Camelot. His unseen ally this time is John L. Balderston, who wrote Berkeley Square in 1929, and Balderston was apparently not meant for the ages...
Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner, 47, Broadway lyricist (Camelot, the upcoming On a Clear Day You Can See Forever); by Micheline Lerner, 37, his fourth wife; on grounds of mental cruelty; after nearly eight years of marriage, one child; in Las Vegas. Settlement: a reported $1 million...