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...dome light flashing behind him did not belong to some friendly police car escorting him to a movie premiere. So Hollywood's Burt Lancaster pulled up his red Mercury and was approached by a pair of California highway patrolmen, who informed him that he had been driving at 55 m.p.h. in a 45-m.p.h. zone. O.K., Mac, here's a ticket. Burt refused to accept it, explaining: "I want to get an education." He was taken to the county jail in Los Angeles, where he refused to post the $65 bail and spent the night in a cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 4, 1968 | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). The Train (1965). Burt Lancaster plays a French Resistance leader who tries to keep a trainload of art treasures from being shipped to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Sep. 27, 1968 | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...visual humor provided by director Burt Shevelove brings nothing to nothing. Characters dump water on each other's heads and slam rifle butts on their toes. One endless bit revolves around a prostitute stumbling around with an arrow stuck between her tits. It's that kind of show...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Wind in the Sassafras Trees at the Colonial through Saturday | 9/23/1968 | See Source »

Aghast, his father wangled a job transfer to Michigan and told Burt that his next school would be an Eastern board ing school. Burt laughed in his father's face and disappeared for three weeks. When he returned, it was to announce his enlistment in the Marines. The fam ily now lives in Michigan. Burt is a pfc. in Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: Pot and Parents | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

Attractive Models. If Burt does not quite seem like the boy next door, look again. He is a member of a new and rapidly growing group of drug users that the Rev. Melvin L. Knight Jr. calls "Billy-the-Kid drug heroes." Knight, who is pastor of St. Peter's-by-the-Sea Presbyterian Church in Palos Verdes, observes: "These guys seem to be real straight arrows. They're intelligent, good-looking. Good at sports, popular around school. They have all the characteristics of the old-style campus hero. But they also take and perhaps push drugs: marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: Pot and Parents | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

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