Word: lancelot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rule of law echoed public optimism about the United Nations and the potential of the Third World. We live in more cynical times, and Camelot now plays as just a hokey love triangle. That aspect is not too pertinent either: while Queen Guenevere fights off her adulterous yearnings toward Lancelot in keeping with the morality of the past, Britain's present Queen-in-waiting makes indiscreet phone calls and negotiates a separation...
Robert Goulet, the original Lancelot, plays the Richard Burton role of the nobly cuckolded Arthur, a perennial boy transmuted into a saint. At 60 and looking it -- especially when moving as if in a back brace -- Goulet is two decades too old. Patricia Kies gushes out the girl Queen's politically incorrect ignorance and submission while appearing old enough to play Hamlet's mother. As Lancelot, Steve Blanchard sounds like the voice-over from a cartoon and cavorts with an odd hip swivel, as if ready at any moment to start dancing the twist. James Valentine's doubling of Merlyn...