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SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Trout fishing in Chile and Argentina, surf casting for striped bass on Cape Cod, and hunting game birds in New York State. Curt Gowdy narrates. Premi...
This is such stuff as bad dreams are made on; and in Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera's new opera Bomarzo, it is appropriately woven into the gripping nightmare of a tortured spirit. Commissioned by the Washington Opera Society and given its world première last week at Washington's Lisner Auditorium, Bomarzo is based on a prizewinning novel by Buenos Aires Art Critic Manuel Mujica Lainez, who also wrote the libretto. In 15 taut, hallucinatory scenes that take place mostly in the mind of Pierfrancesco Orsini, Renaissance Duke of Bomarzo, it flashes back over the events...
...newspapers printing rumors about a rift in the family. He had the critics to worry about, what with tackling Shakespeare on screen tor the first time-and with his wife as a costar. So Actor Richard Burton asked the obvious question when he encountered Princess Margaret at the London première of The Taming of the Shrew: "Are you as nervous as I am?" She sure was, said Meg. She was ready to bet on it. Burton was more than willing, and he was confident that he had the greater stakes. "I've got my own money...
Thus, like a peek inside some space-age incubator, began the world première last week of Roland Petit's Paradise Lost - no direct kin, obviously, to John Milton's sturdy epic of the same name. Neon eggs are unusual enough, but more unusual was the fact that the work was hatched by London's Royal Ballet, the venerable guardian of traditional repertory. What is more, the roles of Adam and Eve were danced by the foremost duo in romantic ballet, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn...
...there should be Mum; Caine's is just about the best since J. M. Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. He reports that he has finally persuaded his mother to give up her lifelong job as a charwoman. When he invited her to attend the première of his first big movie, she shyly refused, then, unbeknownst to him, just joined the crowd outside. She still takes the bus to his openings. "She used to tell me proudly how she had sat next to a real fine lady," says Caine. "It would make me bloody...