Article: Burt Barr at Patrick Callery.(video art)(Brief Article)

A thrilling point of cultural reference might seem lost forever when the first few pages of a simple Internet search for From Here to Eternity reveals a British plan to vitrify radioactive waste rather than a torrid movie scene featuring leggy Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in a passionate seaside embrace. At the time, that steamy clinch bared the two stars in the fairly unrevealing bathing attire of trunks and a maillot--not much by today's standards--while daring to consider such role-defying concerns as "who's on top?" The scandalous image, which in 1953 challenged the tolerance of the Legion of Decency as well as the courage of newspaper advertising managers, became ...

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