Showing posts with label Richard Burton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Burton. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Burton and Goulet Wonder Where Camelot Went

Let us now return to the magical musical days of Camelot as Robert “The Lusty Lance” Goulet and Julie “The Ice Queen” Andrews cloak their adulterous natures and avert the gaze of King "Cuckold" Arthur, embodied by Richard “Behold As My Magnificently Overblown Acting Chops Lay Waste To This Pair of Shmos” Burton, as he vows to visit steely vengeance upon the heads of the offending duo before they can reach the hills that  are alive with the Sounds of Music. (He might have done it too if only his sword were not made of cardboard).

Seriously,this is from a 1962 television special, The World of Lerner and Loewe - and it's pretty cool.
The World of Lerner and Loewe




Friday, May 4, 2012

To Be Or Not To Be, You Say?

If mankind were limited to only one existential question, surely it would be either: To Be Or Not To Be? or, Is There Anything Billy Shakespeare Didn't Think Of?

Here are several versions of Hamlet's most famed soliloquy performed by some of the most celebrated thespians of the past century, all pondering the same questions; all sans answers.
Which among them, one may ask, is the greatest performance? 'Tis a resolution devoutly to be wished.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Lucille Ball loved Elizabeth Taylor's Ring

Comedy sparks flew aplenty when Lucille Ball met the plumber of her dreams, Richard Burton, and his lovely wife, Elizabeth Taylor's ring.  (Legend is that the Burton pair despised their hostess but apparently, it was nothing that a few acting chops couldn't disguise).