Word: iguana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understand the situation at Puerto Vallarta, you need a slide rule, a T-square, a French curve, and a basic introduction to metaphysics. In this hot little cove on the west coast of Mexico (TIME, Nov. 1), a film company is making Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. The screenplay is somewhat adulterated, since it was pecked into existence by someone else. But the off-screen play, unnervingly, is something straight out of Tennessee Williams. The shadow and the substance fuse...
...More Parrots. Now Hollywood has arrived. Last September Director John Huston appeared with Richard Burton (chaperoned by Elizabeth Taylor) and Sue (Lolita) Lyon to shoot The Night of the Iguana. Huston liked the fishing so much that he bought a $30,000 house in a cottage colony eight miles outside town. Liz and Dick are house hunting too. Playwright Tennessee Williams, whose Iguana is set in an unspoiled Mexican resort in 1940, took one look at Vallarta and exclaimed: "This is precisely what I meant. This is Acapulco 20 years...
...matter, said Liz after she finally collected Liza, 6, and Dickie, 37. "We'll be married in three months." Then it was on to another frenetic touchdown in Mexico, where Burton (see CINEMA) has the part of the tourist guide in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana, and started off pretty beastly by punching a photographer in the nose. At last everyone simmered down enough for Liz to announce in tones last tested on Mount Everest: "I'm here because Mr. Bur ton is here." Back in Manhattan, meanwhile, Sybil Burton, 33, had a better line...
Every Broadway season looks in prospect like an ingenue in a bridal gown, and in retrospect like a naked iguana. Somehow, the paper promises -the mere names, titles and themes - are always unbearably alluring; but it is much easier to develop a good idea for a show than to develop a good show, and Broadway never looks better than it does in August, just before it starts down the aisle...
Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams' often moving drama about yet another assortment of sick, sick people, played by a strong, though not star-studded, cast including Mark Richman, Vicki Cummings and Irene Dailey. Philadelphia; Latham...