Word: basilic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the brilliant Hotspur dead, the scenes of military rebellion can't begin to match those of 1 Henry IV, but they need not be such a trial as they are in this production. Northumberland (Stephen Pearlman) comes on looking like Basil Rathbone, but our hopes are dashed when that hoarse, ugly voice begins to speak, And so it goes with the rest, whom I shall not bother to name. The sole exception is David Little's Lancaster, which has youth, vigor and vocal clarity; he brings much-needed life to the scenes...
...BAFFLING WORLD OF ESP (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Basil Rathbone narrates a study of extrasensory perception, using films of actual ESP experiences and lab experiments to explore telepathy, clairvoyance and the power of mind over matter. Among those interviewed are Menninger's Gardner Murphy and Yale's Henry Margenau...
Even the cast mishmashes beach and horror types. Boris Karloff plays a corpse in search of his youth; Tommy Kirk, who must be pushing 30, plays his usual teenager; Basil Rathbone, who must be 80 and sorely in need of funds, plays a conniving old lawyer; and Nancy Sinatra embodies all her father's physical attributes except his voice...
...stannous fluoride solution commonly used for painting may interfere with the absorption of fluorine, and he is casting around for a better compound. Meanwhile, he says, it helps to cover the teeth, right after painting, with a protective coat of silicone grease. A colleague, Dr. Basil Richardson, believes that the best coating is polyoxyethylene soya amine-a sort of reverse detergent to keep the saliva from washing the fluoride away...
...idol. Everywhere, audiences clamored fqr him, and the critics threw superlatives at his fingers. During World War II, he moved his family to Hollywood, bought a rambling 15-room mansion next door to Ingrid Bergman and soon became movieland's great bon vivant. He chummed around with the Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing an accordion in a combo...