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They were like "two violent acids bubbling about in a nasty little matrimonial bottle." Divorced and remarried, they meet and fall passionately in love all over again. Liz and Dick? Well, yes, but also Amanda and Elyot, the bright and brittle lovers in Noel Coward's 1930 comedy, Private Lives. What could be more perfectly dramatic than for Elizabeth Taylor, 50, and Richard Burton, 56, to combine their ability to light a fuse with Sir Noel's talent to amuse? At a press conference in Los Angeles announcing their first joint outing on Broadway this spring, the blithe...
...friend suggested that he shave off his beard and call himself Noel Rehsielf, which is his name spelled backward. But Leon Fleisher said he would go on, which is no spelled backward. To demonstrate to the world that, after 17 years, he could once again range up and down a piano keyboard with both hands, he chose the most visible occasion he could find: the inauguration last week of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's $23 million Joseph Meyerhoff Hall...
...1950s are remembered as television's golden age of drama, and for good reason: not only was a new generation of playwrights creating intimate drama for the anthology series like Kraft Television Theater and Studio One, but Broadway stars were bringing familiar plays into a million homes. Noel Coward and Lauren Bacall struck a happy medium in Blithe Spirit; Katharine Cornell exhumed The Barretts of Wimpole Street. But in a decade when just about every new Broadway hit was sold to the movies, producers had little interest in "settling" for TV's small money, tiny screen...
...Noel Pfeifer...
...Noel Coward was the master of the clipped, ice-cool putdown; George C. Scott is the master of the bristling, white-hot punchup. His voice is an explosion in a gravel pit, and he moves across the stage like a bulldozer in a china shop. Knowing that it would be folly to imitate Coward's brittle delivery and soigné manner, Scott has turned an airily sophisticated comedy into a rollicking, slambang farce...