Word: lancasterism
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Anita E. Kitch Lancaster, Pa.
"I'm an old man, neurotic and slightly hysterical." It seems a most unlikely confession for Burt Lancaster to be making, but then there is nothing likely at all about Conversation Piece, Luchino Visconti's latest movie. Hearing Lancaster speak those lines early in the film and watching...
Squabbles and Pairings. Lancaster appears as a wealthy, unworldly man of taste and learning whose upstairs apartments in Rome are invaded by a family of rich sybarites. The Professor, as he is respectfully called, has no intention of renting the unused space in the first place, but is bullied, bribed...
Seven Days in May. One of Burt Lancaster's best performances about a military coup in the United States that flounders only because the general has an impeachable background (a woman), and the White House threatens to use it against him. Still very tense and even a little scary in...
Young Judy, by David Dahl and Barry Kehoe (Mason/Charter; $9.95), explores Grand Rapids, Minn., and Lancaster, Calif., for fragments of the true Judy. The authors emerge with gossip about Frances Gumm, whose vaudeville father was a homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and...