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...Actor-Director Orson Welles will do a mind-reading act, and Comedian Bill Cosby will play a fumble-thumbs straight man. But the star of NBC's Dec. 26 special will be Doug Henning, 28, Canadian-born escape artist, magician and current Broadway star of The Magic Show. For his debut as host of a live TV special (The World of Magic), Henning will attempt Houdini's famous water-torture escape trick, a piece of submerged wizardry last performed by the master himself in the 1920s. With hands manacled and feet padlocked in stocks, Henning will descend headfirst...
...Great Gift. In her best-known films, she has played relatively withdrawn women. The camera has dwelt upon her beauty and her curious combination of innocence and sensuality, a combination that her lover, French Actor-Director Christian Marquand, calls her essential quality. "She's slightly schizophrenic," says Marquand, "and that gives her a great gift of poetry and a natural perception of things." Some observers wonder, however, if she can act in a wider variety of parts. De Sica seems not to be one of the doubters; he sees her liabilities more as a factor of age than temperament...
...Actor-Director Dennis (Easy Rider) Hopper's third marriage, but his first Jewish wedding. And what a Jewish wedding it was. A trumpet blast, and the 55 guests climbed to their seats on a hillside overlooking San Francisco Bay near the home of Bride Daria Halprim, who starred in Zabriskie Point. The music began as a composition for synthesizer, ram's horn, flute, and a Yemenite trumpet recorded especially for the wedding. Then, to the melody of a flute song, Daria, in a purple velvet Navajo dress, walked to the bridal canopy designed by her father, Landscape Architect...
...opted out the next week. Guy re-cast the part, but by then the show was one-third blocked, voices were more developed, and more importantly, the cast had become close. The others asked Guy to take over Amsterdam. "I figure I'll get torn apart for being an actor-director. The egocentricity, after hearing 104 other people!" But it was, after all, how fate had manipulated...
EASY RIDER. Using townspeople playing themselves and drawing a topnotch performance from Jack Nicholson, Actor-Director Dennis Hopper has added a new dimension to the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer...