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Recently, in print, Producer Herman Levin asked everyone to perform a willed act of amnesia and forget that Rex Harrison ever played Professor Higgins and Julie Andrews played Eliza Doolittle. That is impossible...
Phonetic Retard. While still as elegant as it was before, My Fair Lady has changed in texture because of its principals. Harrison's brittle disdain matched Bernard Shaw's glacial unconcern for people as people. Ian Richardson, on the other hand, is too humane to treat Eliza as a phonetic retard. For him, she is an emotional event. Despite Shaw's impassioned lip service to English, he often treated it either as a handgun or a toy. Richardson treats it as the lineal descendant of Shakespeare. The text cannot always bear the weight of that sort...
...mystery began to unfold last fall in sleepy, sun-drenched Clearwater, Fla. The Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. decided to buy the 270-room Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown landmark, and a nearby bank building. Southern Land stated that the hotel would stay open, but another spokesman announced that it would become a center for the United Churches of Florida, a new ecumenical outfit that soon won endorsement from twelve local clergymen...
Last week Scientologists revealed that the Fort Harrison Hotel is slated to become the movement's "Flag Land Base," offering "advanced" training to its international elite. Although their figures may well be inflated, Scientologists claim 3 million members in the U.S. and another million abroad. Until now the courses have been offered aboard the 3,300-ton yacht Apollo, the roving residence of Scientology's founder, L. (for Lafayette) Ron Hubbard, 65. Rarely photographed or seen by outsiders, Hubbard turned up briefly in Clearwater last month, portly, in apparent good health and decked out in a khaki jumpsuit...
Even with four high school All-Americans on his 1971-1972 squad, the best Harrison could come up with was a 15-11 record...