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...unique roster of stars-including James Coburn, Walter Matthau, and Charles Aznavour) -- enjoy the "charity" offered by Southern and Hoffenberg's nymphette, while scripter Buck Henry (dare this hardcore Southern fan say it) actually improves upon the novel in two bizarrely funny sequences: Candy's worshipful encounter with drunk Welsh poet McPhisto (Richard Burton), leading to a more-than-peculiar basement menage a quatre involving her Mexican gardener (a "Pepper"-era Ringo Starr doing an incredibly awful accent); and her "lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry...
...threeday after-party party included a ceremony saluting Americans of varied ethnic backgrounds that were not all acknowledged in July. Among the 80 honorees: Joe DiMaggio, Muhammad Ali and Barbara Walters. Next day a glittering concert and dinner dance at New York City's Lincoln Center featured Charles Aznavour, Julio Iglesias, Placido Domingo and the premiere of a new cantata by Composer William Schuman. When all was conclusively said and exhaustively done, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation had chalked up some $300 million. "That's a lot of bake sales," quipped Foundation Chief Lee Iacocca, as he prepared...
...evening began with a lavish, four-hour variety show, complete with glittery set, tuxedoed host and a parade of guest stars. Singer Charles Aznavour cut a ribbon to mark the occasion, and Rudolf Nureyev, Sting and ABC Newsman Peter Jennings were among the celebrities who sent greetings from abroad. Then it was on to regular programming: an onslaught of game shows, movies and weekly series, interrupted regularly by -- mon Dieu! -- commercials...
...Charles Aznavour still looks great at 58, with his small, powerful body sheathed in black, his ready-for-anything Cagney stance, the pouty lower lip that all chansonniers are issued at birth. Ever the actor as singer, he will poke or sculpt the air to give physical shape to a lyric; at the end of a song he may waltz or lurch into the wings. Mostly he stands at center stage and sing-talks one of the more than 1,000 ballads he has written. These are songs of subterranean emotions, of dreams and fears and guilty secrets. The best...
...problem with this species of charm is that it does not fill a concert stage, let alone the Broadway theater where Aznavour is beginning his tour of nine American cities (including Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles). Singing standards like Yesterday When I Was Young, The Old Fashioned Way and She is not enough to justify a solo stint on the grand scale. The star need not wear a mermaid's tail and wriggle in a wheelchair, as Bette Midler did in her recent socko turn at Radio City Music Hall. One needs simply to magnetize the spectator. Midler...