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...Playwright Noel Coward, visiting the U.S. for the first time since the war began, divulged his formula for enduring during air raids: "When the warning sounds I gather up some pillows, a pack of cards and a bottle of gin, tuck myself beneath the stairs and do very nicely with the consolations of a drink and solitaire until 'All Clear' sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...backstage banter about a romantic reconciliation and all the coy onstage asides were but means of bloating the box office of their ponderous Broadway revival of Noël Coward's comedy Private Lives. Mercifully, it seems that Richard Burton, 57, and Elizabeth Taylor, 51, may never replay their headline-grabbing love affair again. For last week, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas (what could be more romantic?), Burton wed his companion of the past 18 months, Sally Hay, 35. It was Burton's fifth reading of the wedding vows. (Past partners: Sybil Williams, Taylor, Taylor again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 18, 1983 | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...hypocrite, a braggart, a coward and a misogynist. He is sycophantic, grasping, rude and vain. He is also hilarious, the most outrageous character on television. He is Bill Bittinger, a Buffalo talk-show host, brilliantly played by Dabney Coleman, on NBC's new comedy series Buffalo Bill. The character is that rarity on television, a star who is a truly unsentimental cad. His lone redeeming feature is his unredeemability. To Buffalo Bill, all women are "bimbos" to be seduced, all men rivals to be traduced. If American viewers had not lost their innocence about unscrupulous TV characters, Bill would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Truly Unsentimental Cad | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

That directness has made Torch Song a commercial success when the anticipated failure of other plays with gay themes has sent Broadway producers fleeing. Homosexuals have long been a vital part of the theater, of course-Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Tennessee Williams come immediately to mind-and it can be argued that much of Broadway is infused with a gay sensibility. But never before has an out-of-the-closet play like Torch Song done so well with straight, middle-class audiences. For 3 hours and 40 minutes they enter into the life of Arnold Beckoff, who makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No Opened Doors for Me | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...case of the first volume, Debrett's Texas Peerage (Coward-McCann; $24.95), this means pretty much the landed and oiled gentry; there are more than 100 families in this category in Texas with a net worth of $30 million or more each. Debrett's aristocrats are selected by Georgia Author Hugh Best (Red Hot & Blue). The largest landholders of this pride of peers, the King-Kleberg clan, at one point owned 13 million acres around the world, though, as Nelson Bunker Hunt observed, "a billion dollars isn't what it used to be." Among other renowned Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Lord Yank | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

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