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...must have suggested lots of bright red for excitement. Brightness helps a little, but otherwise the entire movie appears to have been assembled in the same mechanical way. Certainly some unimaginative travel agent chose the in-and-around-London locations: Trafalgar Square, the Zoo, the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. A consultant on film fads surely recommended the modish scenes of violence, since the villains pursuing Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck from one landmark to the next seldom just take out a gun and shoot. Instead, Director Stanley Donen (Charade, Indiscreet) assigns a helicopter and a wrecking crane to tasks...
...next week's cover picture in place of mine? I consider this figure you have attached to my name monstrous in appearance, bearing no resemblance to my likeness, which appears on the inside in the body of my story-the one in which I am attired in my Ascot suit, the one I wore when I played the lead in My Fair Lady. Therefore, this is to notify you that I am suing you for $1,000,000 for defamation of caricature...
Calder seemed to be enjoying the flurry he was creating as he shook hands and consulted with the workmen. On top of his bushy white hair, he sported a Turner Construction Company hardhat. Under his overcoat was a magenia silk ascot...
...spray of diamonds. For U.S. women, who are continually perplexed by British royalty's choice of clothes, the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis elucidated: "It is the kind of thing British royalty often wears, whether snipping a ribbon or watching the horses at Ascot. But in the U.S. such clothes are reserved for afternoon weddings, bar mitzvahs or cocktail parties...
...master's throne, Ormandy has all the moves of a maestro to the manner born. He receives visitors in his Bellevue-Stratford Hotel suite (where he has lived with his second wife for the past 15 years) attired in blue satin smoking jacket and matching polka-dot ascot. His still-accented English has taken on the authority of a Charles Boyer, his pronounced limp (an old hip injury aggravated by an automobile accident five years ago) appears less a handicap than a charming idiosyncrasy. True, he no longer tears around town like a dragster in his car, and after...