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m m uwvj f • m » mm m w m mm ^ v ^crossed lovers in a forthcoming film. If it’s authenticity director Franco Zerfirelli was seeking in casting the two, he’s still a year late on Miss Hussey. Shakespeare's play, in describing Juliet, says . . she hath not seen the change of 14 years.”Teenaged Romeo, Juliet Film Shakespeare PlayBy DENNIS REDMONT ROME (AP) — Two bright-eyed British teen-agers, picked for a youth-accented version of “Romeo and Juliet,” are racing through the flowery fields and the dank churches of TXiscany.Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey have had little movie experience.“It's a tremendous risk,” says Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose “Taming of the Shrew” starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.“We just hope to have the right chcmtstr—a melancholy Romeo who rebels like all the youth of today and a pure, determined Juliet. If we fail, it will be ridiculous,”Zeffirelli has been directing Shakespearean plays for seven years in London, Rome and New York.“But this will be my last,”he maintains. “TTtese two little actors should crown my seven years with the Bard.”Argentine-lorn Olivia comes straight from a London stage role to the rolling hills of Tuscany, the Italian province where the ancient Etruscan civilization blossomed.Leonard has just finished an 18-month stint as the Artful Dodger in the English musical hit “Oliver.”Zeffirelli has put both througha get-acquainted-with-Italy period, to capture the spirit of the Italian stories which inspired Shakespeare to write the play.“Shakespeare specifically meant the parts to be for adolescents and not for oldies like Norma Shearer and Leslie How-ard, who did the movie in 1936,“ Zeffirelli says.Around Tuscan!a, a tiny village perched on a poppy-dotted bluff, Whiting is taking fencing and riding lessons while Miss Hussey practices song and dance.Both are closely checked by a chaperon, Miss Elsie Mayfaire, contracted to watch the teenagers* weight in the face of starchy Italian meals and to keep track of their social life.Zeffirelli will cut some of the long passages from Shakespeare's play but will retain the basic dialogue.TTie film, produced by Dinode Laurentis, will be released in early 1968.The immense heart of the giraffe is one of nature's most powerful pumps. It sends blood 12 feet to the animal's head. When the head is lowered, a valve checks the rush of blood to prevent rupturing the brain; when the animal stands upright, the valve prevents too rapid a drainage of blood from the brain.W
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Havre Daily News
Havre, Montana, US
Tue, Jul 11, 1967
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