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...their chauffeur; in New Orleans. Endowed with a pretty, pouty face and an astounding (40-18-36) figure, Jayne was single-mindedly intent on becoming a "Hollywood personality," and in a way she succeeded-by flooding the papers with peep-show photos and an incredible series of antic marriages, mishaps and escapades. In her role as the dazzlingly dumb blonde in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, critics thought they saw a spark of talent. But Jayne was too busy to fan that flame...
...surly bunch of Harvard and Yale trackmen traveled to England to see if their Anglo-Saxon bretheren at Oxford and Cambridge could exert themselves beyond a dainty lift of a teacup. The Englishmen in fact, could. And since that time, they have won 11 of the 21 trans-A antic meets...
...Beck is another standout. Whether all but eating two fantastically pornographic slave girls in "Don't Forget Your Sugar Daddy," or prancing through a rather uninspired ditty called "Daughter and Dad," which he and Denny transform into a formidable show-stopper, Beck epitomizes that antic self-congratulation which is the hallmark of a Top Banana...
Black Comedy's monkeyshines are brought to a high polish by an acrobatically agile cast, but the players might have been spared some arm-and-leg-work if Playwright Shaffer had pared the show and tightened the pace. Choosing to be optically antic, he evades the opportunity to show how the eye lies and the mind's eye ferrets out reality -which might have given the evening more intellectual relish, a sort of Pirandello flavor. In a one-act opener called White Lies, Shaffer tries to be wise rather than clever about lovers and lovelessness. As an impoverished...
Born. To Carol Burnett, 32, TV's antic ugly duckling, and Joseph Hamilton, 37, TV producer; their second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...