Word: lerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musicals, Camelot is very much worth seeing for "the splendor of its sets, the best of its Lerner-Loewe tunes and its stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower...
...elect Johnson and the Rayburri-Mansfield leadership of Congress as the New Frontiers approach. His apparent strategy is to give them enough rope, which is the classic maneuver of power politics. They are being consulted and shown every deference." Wrote the New York Post's liberal Columnist Max Lerner: "Call it a trivial item, but it is not without its meaning: I am speaking of the ritual President-elect Kennedy has established of meeting the press out in the open with each of his Cabinet appointees, hatless and coatless, in sunshine or frost. It could easily become a fetish...
Camelot. Suffering from a book paralyzed by internal contradictions, the Lerner-Loewe opus nevertheless has sprightly music, magnificent sets and a performance beyond the call of musicomedy duty by Richard Burton...
Camelot. Suffering from a book paralyzed by internal contradictions, the Lerner-Loewe opus nevertheless has sprightly moments, magnificent sets, and a performance beyond the call of musi-comedy duty by Richard Burton...
Camelot. While failing to live up to its extravagant expectations and to the richness of the Arthurian legend, the Lerner-Loewe work has sumptuous sets, some fine songs, some stylishly medieval choreography, and an expert performance by Richard Burton...