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...benefit observed philosophically: "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away." On the debit side were Lynda Bird Johnson and Actor George Hamilton, who couldn't make it to Manhattan for the U.S. premiere of the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton version of The Taming of the Shrew. Among the credits were Bobby Kennedy and his sister Pat Lawford, joining a glittering list of 500 who paid $100 each to help the Society for the Rehabilitation of the Facially Disfigured. But it was the Duke and Duchess of Windsor who drew shrieks from the people watchers outside the theater. Resplendent...
...Good Man, Charlie Brown. The U.S. comic strip has often mimicked and miniaturized the battle of the sexes. In Bringing Up Father, the explosively frustrated, cigar-chewing Jiggs is tamed by the shrew Maggie. In Blondie, the hapless, incompetent Dagwood is forever being put to rights by his cool, frizzy-haired wife. In Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz defined and some what disguised the process by finally reducing the American male to his supposedly intrinsic childishness...
...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 in that film," he explained...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? The games people play on Faculty Row make for ferocious fun in a movie as powerful as Edward Albee's Broadway hit, with Richard Burton as a history prof, Elizabeth Taylor as his untamed shrew...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? The games people play on Faculty Row make for ferocious fun in a movie as powerful as Edward Albee's Broadway hit, with Richard Burton as a long-suffering history prof, Elizabeth Taylor as his untamed shrew...