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...JUNCTION. Suzy Kendall, the newest and perhaps brightest of Britain's new blonde birds, is reason enough to recommend this trip to a broken-down Battersea slum, based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) and directed by Peter Collinson (The Penthouse...
...Junction shouts the ancient news that the rich are different from the poor: they have more money. Into broken-down Battersea comes the classy Kendall, searching for herself. In a few days she finds a factory job, a frowzy flat and a blond boy friend. The appalling squalor of the slums appeals to Kendall, largely because it seems to have the beat of life that was missing from her deadly home across the river in wealthy Chelsea...
Such a fellow is Britain's Anthony Caro, 42, whose works suggest an explosion in a boiler factory. His Month of May, a star attraction at London's current sculpture triennial in Battersea Park, is a magenta, orange and green collection of huge aluminum jackstraws seemingly flung into the air over two chunks of I beam. There is no pedestal, no impressive volume filled with bronze-and no relation to human scale. "I wanted to make sculpture that is as meaningful in a room as a person," says Caro. So he shunned anatomically suggestive totems as "people substitutes...
...Ballad of Davy Crockett in 1956 should make Walt Disney shudder. Not a vestige remained of the 17 official verses. New versions ranged from "Born on a table top in Joe's café,/ The dirtiest place in the U.S.A." to "Born on a rooftop in Battersea/ Joined the Teds when he was only three...
...friends. Mike's angle: none, except that, he conceded, a word or two about the London première of his zany travelogue Around the World in 80 Days might "sneak into the newspapers.'' At London's vast, varicolored Battersea Pleasure Gardens, Todd's flunkeys dealt out some 2,000 plastic raincoats he had bought ("The goddamn rain flowed like champagne," the great man growled), while Aly Khan and his great and good friend, French Model Bettina, cavorted on the carousel, U.S. Ambassador Jock Whitney sloshed into a mud puddle, and Sir Hartley Shawcross, onetime...