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...sidewalk cafe, Ivan Kro-scenko, 31. a man in a black leather jacket, sipped espresso and cased the pedestrian traffic with a predatory eye. A bearded giant strode past: Cinemactor Steve ("Hercules") Reeves. "Mr. Universe," sneered Kroscenko softly. "So who cares?" He was after bigger game. "Linda Christian. Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg. Jayne Mansfield." he rolled the names lovingly across his tongue. "They are important people. They make trouble." Kroscenko rose, slung the strap of his Rolleicord camera over a shoulder, and went prowling for trouble...
GOOD BYE, AVA, by Richard Bissell (241 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), recalls the widespread complaint that the U.S. lacks comic novelists. This is not true, as is proved weekly by the bestseller lists; the great lack is of novelists who are funny on purpose. In that lodge two of the more notable members are Peter De Vries (The Tents of Wickedness) and Richard Bissell (7½ Cents...
...renamed Sixth Avenue for him. And for good reason: he lives on a houseboat, makes a dandy income manufacturing Sno-Fuzz machines (Sno-Fuzz is a kiddy confection), and practices a kind of Greco-Roman wrestling with any number of ladies. In fallow periods he daydreams of Ava Gardner-a whimsy not among the author's bubbliest...
...best, Bissell has the curious ability to affect his fans like four beers on a hot afternoon, and to chill his de tractors like four draughts of anti-beer, a potion (mercifully still to be invented) that leaves a man progressively soberer and meaner. Good Bye, Ava is not exactly anti-beer; it is simply a little flat...
Among Anglo-Saxons the passion for bullfights used to be limited largely to such professional tauromaniacs as Novelist Ernest Hemingway, Barnaby (Matador) Conrad and Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan. Next came Actress Ava Gardner, who, like many a lady before her, had trouble choosing between man and beast. But last week Spain was crawling with a new species of Anglo-American characters known, even among themselves, as bull bums. Before a bullfight, these happy eccentrics can usually be found tossing down a fino in the lobby of the leading hotel or paying respects as the matadors nervously squeeze into their tight...