Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeking Divorce. Jill Townsend, 31, American actress; from Nicol Williamson, 38, crown prince of the British stage, whom she met in 1965 when she played his daughter in Inadmissible Evidence on Broadway; after five years of marriage; one son; in London...
Died. William Redfield, 49, veteran TV, stage and screen actor whose estimated 2,000 performances included playing Harding in the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; of a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia; in Manhattan. The son of a music arranger and a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl, Redfield played ten roles on Broadway before he was 20. He later wrote about the theater -Letters From an Actor (1967)-and with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan helped found the Actors Studio...
Died. Alastair Sim, 75, doleful-vis-aged British actor of stage and screen; of cancer; in London. During a marvelous 50 years of playing bedeviled headmasters, bungling sleuths and dotty bishops (he officiated at Peter O'Toole's wedding in The Ruling Class), Sim deftly dodged interviews. But he once let it be known that it was revealed to him "many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right...
...just to prove it, Comedian George Burns paired up with Singer-Actress Carol Charming last week and took to the dance floor. George, who has just written a new book titled Living It Up, or, They Still Love Me in Altoona, had come to New York on a stage tour with Channing, 53, and at a preshow party in Manhattan, the two showed their style with some bump and hustle. Well, sort of. "Carol was doing the hustle, but I was still doing the peabody. When I like something, I stick to it," noted Burns. "The only ones...
...energy sources-solar power, shale oil-remain drawing-board daydreams. By contrast, the Japanese, who are much more dependent on foreign oil than the U.S. is, have sharply stepped up work on such alternatives as nuclear power (twelve plants in operation, eleven under construction, five more in the blueprint stage) and geothermal power (several pilot operations now under...