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...Spanish, were so heavily fortified that the British could never retake them. "If they intend to," he said, "it will be a butchery." In the island capital of Port Stanley, General Mario Benjamin Menendez, the newly appointed Argentine governor, was ensconced in the office vacated by Britain's Rex Hunt...
...filming her first and maybe her last movie, Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. She knows it and she is sorry, because she loves Pirates, and Papp, and Director Wilfred Leach, and Cast Members Rex Smith (the seraphically stupid hero Frederic), Kevin Kline (the pirate king), George Rose (the major general), Angela Lansbury (the nursemaid Ruth) and Tony Azito (the double-jointed police sergeant...
...face-she reads subtle paragraphs about Americans abroad. But it is now harder for her to find the intensity that the stage show always seemed to generate, and Director Leach has noticed that lately she seems to grit her teeth when thinking of England. Love scenes with Rex Smith are still to be shot, and she must be shyly radiant. Leach has told her to take some time off, fly back to her home in Los Angeles and soak up those shy, radiant freeway vitamins...
...Christmas party and couldn't toot together or on key. Ronstadt, making her first entrance, a point at which she must sing Poor Wandering One in a way that tells everyone who's boss, heard their clamor and got the giggles. She couldn't stop. Rex Smith, on-stage with her, felt himself begin to laugh-a realization, this open-faced, 26-year-old rock singer recalls, that is not at all pleasant, but rather like that of a mountain climber who feels himself beginning to slide...
...possible to present Gilbert and Sullivan in a way that is bright, fresh and respectful of tradition. That much has been proved by Producer Joseph Papp and Director Wilfred Leach of the New York Shakespeare Festival. Their Pirates of Penzance, with Pop Singers Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith, was a smash hit in Central Park and on Broadway. The Broadway production is still running, and the road company is drawing cheers in Chicago. Ronstadt and the rest are filming Pirates in London, and a British stage cast will open the Papp production at the Drury Lane Theater there...