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ROMEO AND JULIET. Director Franco Zeffirelli brings a poignant immediacy to one of Shakespeare's most familiar plays. As the star-crossed lovers, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting perform with a passion to match their young years...
ROMEO AND JULIET. Franco Zeffirelli turns one of Shakespeare's most familiar plays into a movie of stunning immediacy. Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, as the passionate, star-crossed lovers, perform with a maturity beyond their years...
ROMEO AND JULIET. Franco Zeffirelli turns one of Shakespeare's most familiar plays into a movie of stunning immediacy. Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, as the passionate, star-crossed lovers, perform with a maturity beyond their years...
ROMEO AND JULIET. Franco Zeffirelli breathes new life into one of Shakespeare's most familiar plays. The violence is so visceral and the youthful lovers are so passionate that the story assumes a startling immediacy...
Adverse criticism has so far not inhibited Zeffirelli's energy, esteem or income. His salary for Romeo and Juliet was $50,000 plus a hefty percentage, and he will make even more from his new projects, notably a movie of Brecht's Galileo, starring Rod Steiger. At his bachelor villa near Rome, Zeffirelli remains the low-pressure gran signore, entertaining ten or twelve friends for lunch, inhaling gusts of Winston smoke from fingertip-held cigarettes. His braggadocio extends even to his genealogy. "One day my father showed up with an armful of documents," he recalls. "He finally...