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...trouble first surfaced in Camelot last June. Reviving his 1960 role as King Arthur in the Lerner and Loewe musical, Richard Burton gave audiences many knights to remember, but was vexed by what seemed to be bursitis. Burton, 55, missed only one of 319 performances on a cross-country tour that ended in Los Angeles. But in March he was forced to leave the show. His doctors diagnosed his illness as a degeneration of the cervical spine, and said the pain was "like the exposed nerve in a tooth multiplied by ten." As he had done in 1967, when...
Boorman set himself a task only slightly less daunting than the search for the Holy Grail: to tell, in 140 minutes, the epic of Arthur, Guenevere and the Knights of the Round Table. He has a millennium of tough acts to follow: Malory and Tennyson and Tolkien, Wagner and Lerner and Loewe. On screen in the '70s, George Lucas set the story in space (Star Wars); Robert Bresson made it austere (Lancelot of the Lake), and six English cutups made it funny (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) But Boorman has never been cowed by precedent or expectations...
UNLIKE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR or Gerda Lerner, Jane O'Reilly will probably not go down in history as one of feminism's pioneering thinkers. But she has certainly done a lot to popularize the cause. Since her contribution to Ms. magazine's first issue in 1970, the free-lance journalist has broadcasted the validity of the women's movement in Time, Atlantic Monthly and New York magazines. Her first book, The Girl I Left Behind: The Housewife's Moment of Truth and Other Feminist Ravings, is a collection of some of O'Reilly's wittiest and most perceptive essays...
Columnist Joseph Kraft studies the Democratic field, staring at the political teeth, smacking the ideological haunches. Max Lerner agrees with many commentators, including the Chicago Tribune's Michael Kilian, that the Reagan landslide has "all but wiped out Ted's strategic position." The Christian Science Monitor's Godfrey Sperling demurs: "[Edward Kennedy] seems well positioned to become the de facto head of the party-and to be its 1984 presidential candidate." Meantime, New York magazine's Michael Kramer knocks out the Republican early form: "Where is Kemp today? He is a front runner...
...strength of Brigadoon lies in its songs and dances. Lerner and Loewe struck a rich melodic vein, and this full-throated cast mines every golden nugget. Agnes de Mille's dances summon up atavistic ceremonies that might have been carved in bas-relief on the walls of ancient temples. Two standouts: Sword Dance, done with steely balletic precision by John Curry of ice-skating fame, and the Funeral Dance, performed with melancholy fury by Marina Eglevsky to a dirge of bagpipes. The guiding intelligence behind every moment of every scene belongs to Vivian Matalon, who makes of the director...