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...Frankenheimer and 16 camera teams. By season's end, at a cost of $7,500,000, Frankenheimer & Co. had shot 1,000,000 film feet of Formula One racing-some of it real, some of it rigged, all of it in Metrocolor of admirable luster. Out of this ava lanche of acetate, the director has constructed a motion picture that crams the supercolossal Super Panavision screen with some of the most spectacular pictures ever taken of metal in motion...
...trouble was that no one could quite believe that Truman's 540 most intimate friends could be composed of the likes of Averell Harriman and Sammy Davis Jr., Walter Lippmann and Frankie Sinatra, William Baldwin, James Baldwin, Tallulah Bankhead and the Marquis and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Yet the fact is that he possesses an almost endless entrée into the world of the great and the glamorous; as he modestly puts it: "I have an awful lot of friends all over the world...
...tremulously ambiguous scenes set in Hong Kong. There is an American named Ralph Johnson who may really be a titled Englishman or even a Portuguese entrepreneur dealing in hashish, opium and girls. He attends, or thinks he attends, or the narrator thinks he attends, a party given by Lady Ava (or Eva or Eve or Jacqueline) Bergmann at a brothel-or possibly it is a figment of everyone's imagination...
...exercise, treatment, swimming and riding, all on an austere diet that ruled out fatty foods and liquor if the customer was overweight. Fees at Maine Chance have always been high (currently, $750 to $800 a week), and the clientele has included Mrs. Clark Gable, Mrs. John Foster Dulles, Ava Gardner, Edna Ferber, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Gwen Cafritz, Perle Mesta, Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, and Bea Lillie (who came not to reduce, but to put on weight...
Among the stars dimmed for the occasion are George C. Scott and Ava Gardner as Abraham and Sarah, the ancient barren pair who crawl abed hopefully cooing Songs of Solomon. Peter O'Toole, as three Angels of the Lord, smites Sodom in triplicate, terrorizing hordes of extras, who, as usual, do their best to make transcendental evil shine through gaudy sequins and gobs of purple eye shadow. Any characters who are at all respectable converse with a vengeful Deity mainly by lifting eyes skyward, and the pauses throb with crashing drums, heavenly choirs and bird song-everything, in fact...