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...Alec Guinness is rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and doing it cautiously, for his February 1976 television performance with Genevieve Bujold in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The show's sponsor, Hallmark Cards, is still aching from the karate chop rendered unto Winston Churchill by Richard Burton on the eve of his starring role in The Gathering Storm. Shaw wrote that Caesar "bought men with words," but Sir Alec, talking about the play, sounded like a translation from Latin: "Anything that is reasonably civilized is likely to have an underlying wit." Somewhat...
Sills has risen to fame since 1966, when she sang Cleopatra in the New York City Opera's production of Handel's "Julius Caesar...
...Cleopatra (1963). When a studio spends $40 million to make a movie, can it be all bad? Yes. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor fell in love on the set of this movie. That's about all they did on the set. At least this Turkey features a cast of thousands, for those who like that kind of thing. (This is part one. Part two is Monday at 9 p.m.) Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 2 hours...
After graduating from Dartmouth, he won a Fulbright scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Moreover, Joseph Papp, one of the Fulbright judges, immediately cast him in his first professional role-as Octavius in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of Antony and Cleopatra. "I was a bonus baby," recalls Moriarty, "just like in baseball. I was a raw young talent with little technique and a lot of gall based on very weak foundations-which started to crumble when I got to England...
...when Director Joseph Papp, who had only heard about her, asked her to read for Juliet. "Oh, Mr. Papp," Dewhurst told him on the telephone, "you haven't seen me yet. I couldn't play Juliet when I was twelve." In 1963, however, she did a notable Cleopatra for Papp's Shakespeare Festival in Central Park...