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...befuddled sadness clings to Sellers, despite his achievements and despite the comfortable life they have brought him. The beginnings of the curse of self-abnegation and its palliative role playing are to be found in his childhood. He is, on his mother's side, third-generation show biz. His grandmother, Ma Ray, was a performer-manager in the music halls, a minor legend as the first to bring swimmers onstage in a glass tank. Peter's mother, Peg, worked for Ma most of her life, acquiring in the grimy backstages of the provinces an ambition for stardom, which, when...
...audience to a medium shot of half-naked dancers reaching to two glistening torsoes intertwined--rhythmically tantalizing, exhaustingly erotic, you hang on every suspended limb. What a shame the number ends on a preachy note, something about taking you everywhere and getting you nowhere: the most sensual of show-biz choreographers dumping on his most sensual number for the sake of a few themes...
...Bizarre Plot That Killed 2 and Doomed 3 Others"), chills ("CHiPs Star Erik Estrada: I Left My Body After My Motorcycle Crash") and practical, if occasionally farfetched, advice ("Secret of Lifelong Youth Discovered, Claims Scientist"). Most celebrities get good-guy treatment-young actors on the rise and show-biz legends like Bob Hope are particular favorites -but the paper is always on the lookout for a sharp edge. Burnett, whose lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial next month, disputes an article that had her arguing loudly with Henry Kissinger in a Washington restaurant, then giggling when she knocked...
There is a sex problem here; a certain difficulty of gender, even regarding the slang. Standard record-biz patois for new talent on the rise is "breaking out." A quartet of plastic inflatable Teddy bears like the Knack, who came off the crackling short circuit of Los Angeles rock clubs and had a No. 1 album first time out this summer, are said to be breaking out in a big way. That message is clear, not just because of the size of their success but because they are all guys. Say that four women, Ellen Shipley, Carolyne Mas, Ellen Foley...
...fire, and at 80, Sir Alfred Hitchcock is likely to be, as Chaucer put it, "a verray parfit gentil knight." Hitchcock's name as Knight Commander of the British Empire appeared on Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's honors list, the only show-biz personality knighted this year. Fittingly, he received formal notification of the honor at a ceremony in the commissary at Universal City Studios. Why, Hitchcock was asked, had it taken so long for Britain to honor such a distinguished son? Quipped Sir Hitch: "I suppose it was a matter of carelessness...