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...mousse and fillet. Just as they were sitting down in their gowns and tuxedos, an equally elegant bunch was drifting out of Manhattan's Tavern on the Green, where Superagent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar had invited 200 of his closest friends-including Bianco Jagger, Truman Capote, Polly Bergen, Yul Brynner, Walter Cronkite and Lee Radziwill -to help him celebrate his 70th birthday and to watch the awards on ten television screens. But, as they used to say in Brooklyn, wait'll next year and the 50th...
Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, with Yul Brynner playing the Greek wanderer, the show had endless problems during a yearlong eleven-city tour, including a demand by Writer Erich (Love Story) Segal that his name be removed from the credits. He must have known something...
...Magnificent Seven. In the fifth grade, this was one of my favorite movies, and a very popular favorite at Lincoin Avenue School. Not having seen it since then, I'm reluctant to stick my neck out. There are a bunch of stars in it (Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, maybe, or Montgomery Clift), and it is a western. I do know that it was lifted from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and that the great Japanese director was so angered by the Hollywoodization of his classic that he made Yojimbo to satirize the genre, and particularly the joke of American-individualist hero...
...Brynner Los Angeles
Some actors never escape that first big part. Take Yul Brynner, for instance, who keeps time-warping back to his regal role in The King and I. Now touring in a new musical, Odyssey, in which he stars as Odysseus, Brynner has had his secretary send prospective hotels a list of his accommodation needs. Among his demands: "King-size bed in master bedroom (one mattress only, not two). [Room] must be utterly blacked out so as not a sliver of light can enter ... Suite must be immaculate ... Accommodations cannot be within one floor of conventioneers ... A gross of extra wooden...