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Survive! is a quickie rip-off of a quickie ripoff. Exploiting the 1972 plane crash in the Andes in which 16 of the 45 Uruguayans aboard survived by eating the flesh of those who had died, a Mexican company brought out an instant tamale version of the saga. Allan Carr, 39, an epicene Hollywood talent manager and promoter, snapped up the film...
Survival, if by less dire means, is a subject for which Allan Carr has near-Andean credentials. He was hopelessly show-biz-struck as a kid named Alan Solomon in suburban Highland Park, Ill. At 21 he changed his last name and the spelling of his first. He landed a job as general manager of Chicago's Civic Theater, staging such productions as The World of Carl Sandburg, with Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. "I also flew in Carl Sandburg," Carr recalls superciliously, "who brought a little carton of goat's milk." The aspiring entrepreneur arrived in Hollywood...
...says Carr, "I am like a career doctor. I look at somebody, and I become an analyst of everything from what they wear to what they want out of the business." What Nancy Walker wanted was her own show. "Would two years be good enough?" asked Allan. When he heard that Producer Norman Lear "had a fantasy about doing a series concerning a show-biz lady," he got Walker the starring role-the series is called The Nancy Walker Show and will premiere next month. At the moment, Carr is helping Ann-Margret shed the beat-up image she acquired...
...Washington, D.C., plainclothes policewoman contended that Louisiana Democratic Congressman Joe Waggon-ner Jr. drove up in his car and offered to pay her $50 for an oral sex act. Utah Democratic Congressman Allan Howe allegedly approached two Salt Lake City police decoy prostitutes and promised them $20 if they would show him "a little fun" at their place. Former Judge (and failed Nixon Supreme Court nominee) G. Harrold Carswell has been indicted on charges of making advances to a vice-squad policeman in Tallahassee, Fla. Dallas police have accused ex-Army Major General (and right-wing activist) Edwin Walker...
...Grooms' walk-through, gloriously zany sideshow at the Marlborough Gallery (40 W. 57th St.) titled Ruckus Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 19), a coarsely affectionate tribute to this battered queen of American cities, in spirit somewhere between Lenny Bruce and Rube Goldberg. Farther down the block at the Allan Frumkin Gallery (50 W. 57th St.), a group of artists, among them Ceramist Robert Arneson and Painter Peter Saul, are poking none-too-gentle fun at the patriotic excesses of the Bicentennial. The Brewster Gallery (1018 Madison Ave.) has a solid group of more than 50 Georges Braque etchings, aquatints and lithographs...