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...Chekhov's Three Sisters after too little rehearsal, she was booed and got the worst roasting of her career. The London Times described Sandy and Kim Stanley, who played another of the sisters, as "ludicrous and painful." Zeroing in on Sandy's speech ("I-er-I-ah"), Critic Bernard Levin of the Daily Mail reported that "I could barely restrain myself from screaming aloud with the pain of my throbbing nerves." Worse, Sandy was bypassed for the screen versions of her Broadway hits. That hurt, though neither Barbara Harris in A Thousand Clowns nor Jane Fonda...
...grandfather left him a fortune of several hundred million dollars, but play no glad ragas for Nawab Mir Barkat AH Khan, 34, Nizam of Hyderabad. The legacy also included a household staff of 14,000 hungry souls, and an accounting system so lax, says the Nizam, that "every restaurant in the vicinity was being secretly supplied with food from my grandfather's kitchens." So now he has slashed his staff to a bareboned 2,000, which touched off a protest march by 500 of the dismissed employees. There was nothing else to do: the Indian government has sliced...
...does mainland standards like Coin' Out of My Head and latter-day island songs like You'll Never Find Another Kanaka [Native Boy] Like Me. Obligatory at every show is a song called Suck 'em Up, meaning "Bottoms up." When Don moans "Ah ha," the whole house raises $2.50 mai tais and belts along "Suck 'em up." "The more you drink and spend," he quips, "the more chance we get our boy. land back...
Married. Muhammad AH, 25, best remembered as Cassius Clay, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, now deposed and appealing a conviction for draft-dodging; and Belinda Boyd, 17, salesgirl in a Chicago Black Muslim bakery whom he has been dating for a year; he for the second time (his first marriage, to Model Sonji Roi, 27, lasted only eleven months before she got fed up with Muslim taboos); in a Baptist ceremony with additional Muslim prayers in Clay's five-room bungalow on Chicago's South Side...
...doing the same. Every cliche is in its niche: the sensitive downy-cheeked youngster who wants to be a lawyer; the noble captain (Wilde) who tells the lad that he "will be a better lawyer for all this"; the hillbilly hankering after "jes' one more woman afore Ah git it." Grisly glimpses of shot-off limbs and other carnage lend the film a certain sense of reality, but in the end blood and treacle flow at equal rate...