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...years later, Writer-Director Blake Edwards has resurrected the hero of his finest half-hours. Trading up from TV to a wide screen and Technicolor is not the only change he has made. Regular Gunn Moll Lola Albright, who played Edie, and Herschel Bernardi, as Lieut. Jacoby, are gone, and by the finale, Mother's joint has become a discotheque. But the music is still by Mancini, and Craig Stevens retains his dry-ice delivery and his Gary Grant composure even in this preposterously plotted pursuit of a villain who killed one of Gunn's gangster friends...
...Manhattan clan, headed by a Guys and Dolls-type gypsy, Herschel Bernardi, needs to raise an $8,000 bridal fee to purchase a spitfiery West Side Story-type gypsy girl (Chita Rivera) for his son. The girl is so keen for the match that she stages a bajour (Romany for swindle) and cons the widow for the money. A subplot has the widow's daughter living in with the Bernard! bunch to research a Ph.D...
...villa. A black Mercedes 3005 piloted by a beautiful girl roars away into the snowy night. The refugee turns out to have been the ex-chief of Iraq's security forces, who was conspiring against his government. The vanished girl turns out to be his French mistress, Lucia Bernardi. There is a missing suitcase full of documents. There are oil interests. And when the police of three countries are stumped, there is even Piet Maas, a brilliant, disillusioned young Dutch journalist who is told by his boss to Find That Girl! Cut! Next scene: the sunny Riviera...
VACATION PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). A summer replacement series made up of situation-comedy pilot programs never before seen on TV. except by reluctant sponsors. Match your wits with the experts: Which ones would have rated top Nielsens? This week: Herschel Bernardi in "Hurray for Hollywood...
Finally, with a little fist-in-the-face encouragement from brother Dominic (Herschel Bernardi, I must interject, looks and sounds about as Italian as Menasha Skulnick), Steve proposes. To everyone's amazement except ours, Natalie rejects him. A wedding without love would be intolerable. Footloose Steve, feeling his duty discharged, ducks out the back door leaving Natalie's relatives in anguished pandemonium. You never heard so many Mama Mias...