Word: rex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this adaptation by Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz, Volpone becomes (in literal translation) Mr. Fox, a world-weary voluptuary (Rex Harrison) who lives a vita that is incredibly dolce in contemporary Venice. "My wealth," he announces, "is no more a pleasurable object of contemplation than my navel." To enliven his ennui, he decides to bring Volpone to life, casting himself in the title role. For his unfaithful servant, he hires an unemployed actor (Cliff Robertson) who has always wanted to play the palazzo...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). It's man against fin, fang and claw as Bing Crosby and Joe Brooks fish for English Atlantic salmon, Rex Allen rounds up Oklahoma rattlesnakes, and Archer Fred Bear hunts Alaskan polar bears...
Hillbilly Opera. In discussing the search for order, teachers show how this theme is found in such works as Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, The Divine Comedy and Death of a Salesman. To help them understand the difficulties of achieving esthetic order, music students at Garden City have been assigned the problem of writing operas of their own: in one, a hillbilly, over his mother's strong objections, goes to New York to pursue a career as a folk singer and becomes famous. Art students take a Vermeer masterpiece and, on a transparent overlay, convert his realism into a cubist painting...
...Fair Lady demanded a depth that Julie had to struggle to reach. It was almost a year after Boy Friend opened that she was offered the part in Fair Lady-and she nearly threw it away, so intimidated was she by the awful challenge of the trinity of Rex Harrison, Director Moss Hart and George Bernard Shaw. When she failed to get a fix on the mercurial part of the cockney flower girl, Director Hart put Julie through what he called 48 hours of "the Terror...
...Yalies have also lost three of their starting halfbacks--Rex Hinesley, Buzzy Potts, and Bill Harper. Steve Southwick moves up from the bench to replace Harper today...