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...Waltz, Funnyman Sellers has put his talent on a turkey that, on closer examination, proves to be a plucked peacock. As a play-written by France's Jean Anouilh and played on Broadway by Sir Ralph Richardson and Mildred Natwick-it was a brilliantly dressy slapstick satire: a show most wise and cruel when it seemed most raucous and extravagant. As a screenplay-written by Wolf Mankowitz and directed by John Guillermin-Anouilh's fine-feathered strutter has been saponified, caponified, shorn of its more splendid plumes of wit and stuffed with a mighty chunk of supererogatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sellersmanship | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...check with the lady herself. "Yes," said the young Queen, "some time in March." Two years ago, when Farah presented the Shah with his first male heir in three marriages, he cut income taxes by 20%, and his subjects went wild with joy. But with Iran's Peacock Throne already promised to the tiny crown prince, Teheran took the news of a second blessed event in stride. The Queen says she hopes for a girl this time and wants three children all told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

Though she comes from one of her country's "1,000 Families," Farah was a high-spirited architecture student in Paris with a Left Bank haircut and a razor-thin purse when the Shah beckoned. After two years on the Peacock Throne, Farah, as Washington discovered during the Shah's U.S. trip in April, is charming, poised, and possessed of an Arabian Nights' ransom in emerald and diamond tiaras, earrings and necklaces. She has plunged energetically into social work, started redecorating the royal palaces and, say court officials, has only to smile to earn another tiara from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Reigning Beauties | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks, it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks, it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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