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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...
Irrepressible Passions. Ava Gardner plays Iguana's voluptuary middle-aged innkeeper-who sets her desperate cap for Father Richard. She seems to be working at it, off and on camera. If there is a bit of dust on her slacks before a take, Richard helps her remove it. When he has a drink with her after hours, Ava blossoms with animation...
Smoldering Group. Iguana is being filmed on a small peninsula about eight miles by water from Puerto Vallarta. Daily at noon, Taylor arrives by launch, often dressed in a pink bikini, bringing a picnic lunch for Richard from the kitchen of their four-story villa. Ashore, she and Richard go around in a Jeep with a red and white striped canvas top. Burton is the company champion at flinging frisbees. He has learned Spanish, using records and written grammar. He is working well, too. With Williams and Huston behind him, it is conceivable that this movie could...
...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...