Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...King's Conscience. Although he did not augment his income with bribes, as so many judges then did, he had enough to live more than comfortably. Some evidence suggests that the marriage to Alice (his second) was not wholly satisfactory (in a poem he refers to her as a shrew); but, all in all, Sir Thomas appears to have been as happy in his family as most men hope...
...story eminently suited to any pair with a theatrical flair, as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne showed when they caroused through the play on Broadway in 1940. For this film version of Shrew, the Burtons-who only recently finished shrewing their way through the movie version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-are being put through their paces by Franco Zeffirelli, the irreverent Italian director who once did a modern-dress Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" Zeffirelli's notion is that Shrew is a walloping good story...
...some of the hanky-panky that made such eyepopping headlines when Cleopatra was in the making. But not so. This time the Burtons were working. In Rome last week the two were filming a story that William Shakespeare wrote expressly for them some years back: The Taming of the Shrew...
...audiences could, and they liked the blooming English beauty. The hair is russet and gold, the body big but underweight, angular and appealing. What audiences liked critics loved. Her Rosalind in As You Like It was called "the best in history," her Katharine in The Taming of the Shrew "fiery, lovely, right and true...