On Location: The Bawd of Avon

Liz bounced and jiggled upstairs and down, through houses and haylofts, while Richard, decked out in scruffy beard and scruffier clothes, followed in hot pursuit. At length he caught up with her in a pile of wheat, whereupon the two engaged in some biting and cussing and all-round good fellowship.

Sounds like a replay of some of the hanky-panky that made such eyepopping headlines when Cleopatra was in the making. But not so. This time the Burtons were working. In Rome last week the two were filming a story that William Shakespeare wrote...

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