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...yellow Ericson motor sailer, which he bought to celebrate his engagement to Susan Weiner, 21, a sometime model and the daughter of a Los Angeles steel executive. "The whole world knows I am getting married on May 6," Spitz boasted, but was uncharacteristically modest about his career in show biz. "I have to be cautious. There are a lot of great actors out there...
...jealousy and fear. The jealousy is exhibited at wash time. During this period they stare enviously at their neighbor's laundry, which is always whiter-and the colored things brighter-than their own. With wide eyes, they then proceed to learn a series of mysterious monosyllables, among them Biz, Fab, Cheer, Dash, All and Bold. They do not exhibit fear until nightfall, or on weekend afternoons. At these points the MOTHER-IN-LAW arrives for a white-glove inspection of the home. This includes a revealing scrutiny of the kitchen (with its telltale odors), the male's collar...
...lines like "Have I found Shangri-La/ Or has Shangri-La found me?" Liv Ullmann, practically impacted in makeup, smiles bravely; and there is a peppy song-and-dance number, kind of a Donald O'Connor comic turn, by Bobby Van, who is most engaging as a show-biz ham. Sally Kellerman plays a neurotic Newsweek correspondent. Also on hand are John Gielgud, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and, as the dying High Lama, Charles Boyer, of all people. It is a long way from the Casbah...
...halls, and transformed his band of drunken louts into a drunken semi-pro Long Island lounge band. The Kinks have become my favorite band since last November when I first saw them in concert. Davies' manifestation of his music hall persona is the key to Everybody's in Show-Biz, and has become the key to a Kinks concert. With him, performing, separate from music, becomes an art. And boy, can he drink...
...action passes in an Italian restaurant where the Puerto Rican headwaiter is tricked out to look like a cowboy. The autograph hound is Benny Walsh, a busboy at a big Broadway restaurant called the Homestead. His girl friend Gloria burbles about cottages for two, aspires to break into show biz, but acts in skin flicks. What Aristotle would call the complication is simplicity itself: Benny, who is about to lose his job, has a chance to put in a fix with the head of his union. For $350 and a case of Scotch...