Word: screens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gossips to worry about, what with her husband traipsing off to Tokyo and New York and the 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...
...guest star than Stravinsky, who at 84 flew up from Los Angeles to conduct the lyrical fairy tale he composed 50 years ago. In addition, Ross got Saul Steinberg, whose metaphysically satirical cartoons appear in The New Yorker, to design the sets; Actor Basil Rathbone was the narrator, Screen Actor John Gavin the soldier, Ballerina Marina Svetlova the princess, and Dancer Anton Dolin the Devil...
Then stillness and a turning of heads. Down a few steps from a doorway in the corner of the room walk a man and a woman?he, casual in slacks and cardigan sweater; she, sleek in blonde hair and black dress. Simultaneously, a full-sized movie screen begins a silent descent down a side wall. Playboy Editor-Publisher Hugh Marston Hefner, 40, sinks into a love seat that has been saved for him beside the 15-ft.-long stereo console. His girl friend, Playboy Cover Girl Mary Warren, 23, slips alongside him, puts her head on his shoulder. A butler...
...tirade against white wickedness, Dutchman makes no more sense than any other noisy blurb for black reaction. But as a dramatic shocker, it hits even harder on the screen than it did on the stage. The camera picks the onlooker up, sits him down hard only two seats away from that subway succubus, and then forces him to sit there with his palms sweating while the danger builds and builds and builds like the brain-stabbing squeal of steel wheels in a turning tunnel...
...Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of Peter Brook, was the decade's most cinematic drama. In a churning rowdydow of rant, cant, poetry, politics, music, magic, rite and ribaldry, the play moved across the stage like half a dozen movies mingling incompatibly on a giant screen. When Director Brook finally came to film the play, he simply let his cameras zig and zag and make lazy eights above the steamy business; then he assembled his takes into a movie that is altogether faithful to the play and no less frazzle-dazzling to experience...