By E. Graydon Carter

"Rwy'n dy gam di" (I love you, in Welsh) proclaimed Elizabeth Taylor, 50, arms outstretched, as she swept across the stage of London's Duke of York's Theater toward her two-time former husband Richard Burton, 56. Burton, who was giving a reading from Dylan Thomas, cooed back: "Say it again, my petal. Say it again." The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown in her honor at a Mayfair nightclub, the pair toasted each other with champagne and by evening's end were dancing cheek to cheek. Taylor and Senator John Warner, 55, separated in December, and Burton and his wife Susan parted last year. But the seven-time-married Taylor and the four-time-married Burton scotched notions that another wedding might be in the offing. Said Burton: "We love each other with a passion so furious that we burn each other out."

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"As far as a singing career is concerned," says Shari Belafonte-Harper, 27, the daughter of Singer Harry Belafonte, "I'm not waiting around for my Banana Boat to come in. So for now, I'm concentrating on my acting." A sampling of Shari's dramatic skills, a co-starring role in If You Could See What I Hear, the film version of the 1975 autobiography of blind Pop Singer Tom Sullivan, 34, will be released next month. Shari does give one musical performance each year--when she croons Happy Birthday to her dad. Last week the elder Belafonte turned 55, and Shari serenaded him over the telephone. Harry's appraisal? Shrugs Shari: "He never gives me a rating."

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When the actress Dame Judith Anderson (Rebecca) took Robinson Jeffers' adaptation of Euripides' Medea on tour in 1947, the company included Bit Player Zoe Caldwell. In a theatrical reunion, Dame Judith, 84, Robert Whitehead, who produced the original version, and Caldwell (now Mrs. Whitehead) are restaging the updated treatment of the classic Greek drama at Washington's Kennedy Center. This time round, Caldwell takes on the taxing title role, and Dame Judith, retired from the stage for the past decade, plays the role of the nurse. Dame Judith was jumpy about returning to the boards. Says she: "The last time I was onstage was ten years ago." Whitehead recalls that he and Dame Judith had a "stormy relationship" during their previous Medea but adds: "I regret we let over 30 years go by without working on it again together."

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In the small town of Chamalieres, France, the expensively tailored resident quietly slipped into city hall to register his candidacy for the job of local conseiller general (commissioner). The post is minor, but the candidate, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, 56, is anything but. After nine months of private life following his defeat by Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Party last May, Giscard has returned once again to the stump. Though the former President is taking his mini-campaign seriously, he eschews his old trappings of higher office: chauffeured limousines, bodyguards and pumped-up rallies. "Those," observes Giscard, "are simply not the local Style."

--By E. Graydon Carter

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