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...latest manifestations of the above axiom are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Mike Nichols. And while the product should be seen as long as it exists, one can't avoid wishing that both director and property had never gone to Hollywood...
...most-touted-new-director of the age, Nichols repeatedly demonstrates that this is his first picture. Even his genius for fast-paced stage comedy (Luv, The Odd Couple, and Barefoot in the Park) can't be found in Virginia Woolf; possibly it got lost in poor attempts at fancy camerawork and cutting...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? may well be rewarded at the box office primarily for not having the dirty words washed out of its mouth. With a reluctant blessing from censors, all the blunt four, five-and six-letter profanities that helped make Edward Albee's Broadway play a sizzling hit have been brought to the screen intact. But nasty language can be had for free on any street corner. A moviegoer who lays out his money to see Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a blue comedy will get a shock of another color. Virginia Woolf at its best...
Died. James Woolf, 46, acidly witty British producer who in 1949 joined with his brother John to form Romulus Films Ltd., responsible for some of cinema's best (Room at the Top, The African Queen, I Am a Camera)', of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...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 that audiences...