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...that has been prolonged past all reason by the ingenuity of Producer David Merriclc, 55. When Dolly! seemed about to expire three months ago, for example, Merrick restaged and revitalized the show with Pearl Bailey and an all-black cast, leaving Fox with $2,000,000 worth of sets, Barbra Streisand on hand, and no place to go. Fox is now seeking a legal gambit to foreclose on Dolly!, but Merrick is unflapped. "After Pearl, it'll be Liberace," he mused. "In that red dress. Coming down that staircase...
Elizabeth Taylor? "She looks like two small boys fighting under a mink blanket," says Hollywood Designer Mr. Blackwell, 42, creator and promoter of the annual Worst-Dressed Woman Awards. Even so, Liz ranks only fourth on Blackwell's current list of sartorial sad sacks, behind Barbra Streisand ("Today's flower child gone to seed in a cabbage patch"), Julie Christie ("Daisy Mae lost in Piccadilly Circus") and Jayne Meadows ("Barnum and Bailey in a telephone booth"). Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Ann Margret, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Raquel Welch are the other distinguished dowdies...
...excitement. One hundred and thirty five thousand people flock to the Sheep's Meadow in Central Park to share an evening with Barbra Streisand. Around the Meadow rises a wall of trees, dark and mysterious. In the distance loom the colorfully lit buildings of the city...
...crowd roars as Barbra, its Barbra, comes on the outdoor stage. She, in a flowing pink gown, is but a twinkling spot in the distance. Around her, her lovers, who listen together to her voice. "There couldn't be 135,000 people," says Commissioner Heckscher, "They'd all have to be embracing. But then a lot of them...
Hollywood really knows how to make a guy welcome. Barbra Streisand, Jack Lemmon, Steve Allen, Lucille Ball, Pierre Salinger, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Merle Oberon, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, Omar Sharif, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, Mario Thomas, David Niven, Alan Jay Lerner, Donna Reed, Gregory Peck, Natalie Wood, Andy Williams, Tom Smothers, Don Adams and Shirley MacLaine-all of them, plus about 400 others, paid $250 per couple to do honor to Paris Couturier André Courrèges, 44, at a showing of his new collection in Los Angeles. Courreges could only assume that their presence...