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...Oriental paradise in 1937. Pollution has socked in Burbank, where Producer Ross Hunter (Airport) built the monastery by redecorating a castle set that had been swallowing up space on the Warner Brothers back lot ever since Camelot. One sometimes wonders how the actors get through their Burt Bacharach-Hal David tunes-the contemporary equivalent, presumably, of the music of the spheres-without the aid of bottled oxygen...
...violence seems an odd notion for such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley, Methuselah-like longevity, and Burt Bacharach and the Reader's Digest to teach us the better...
...backgrounds of Ostlere and Robert T. Jones, who wrote the story, are about as close to ragtime as Bach is to Bacharach...
While most successful trainers work for privately owned stables. Whittingham runs a public operation catering to such diverse horse owners as Florsheim Shoe Heiress Mary Jones and Composer Burt Bacharach. Says Bacharach: "When I got into this game I learned one thing in a hurry: Charlie knows how to wait. He's patient while others push too hard." Known as a man who "trains the owners," Whittingham says: "Owners have a lot of money invested in these horses, so you can expect them to want to have a say in what goes...
...Goodbye: "We as humans have a tendency to let two things run away from us: our pride and ego." At first the raps were a way to get nightclub audiences quiet. Then they became a bridge between white men's songs (Hayes' favorites: Glen Campbell and Burt Bacharach) and black audiences. Of his 18-minute version of Campbell's By the Time I Get to Phoenix, he says: "I had to bring that song down to soulsville, paint a picture black people could relate...