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...creature of the Tube," said Carol Burnett, 38, arriving in New York to collect her award from the Friars Club as Entertainer of the Year. Weren't her naughty-lady movie takeoffs risqué? "Not compared with those dirty soap operas. We're G-rated compared to daytime TV." Does she have a second career in mind? "I should say a stunt woman in stag movies. But I'd really like to be a schoolteacher for kids, six to eight. They haven't heard all my jokes...
Died. Whit Burnett, 73, co-founder and editor of Story magazine; of a heart attack; in Norwalk, Conn. In 1931 Burnett and his first wife, Martha Foley, mimeographed 75 copies of an anthology of short stories written by themselves and friends. The issue drew immediate critical approval. With Burnett as editor and later his second wife, Hallie, as assistant, Story survived 40 years and was first to publish the short stories of William Saroyan, Norman Mailer and Truman Capote...
TUESDAY: Oscar Awards. Hollywood's night of nights. Emcees for tonight's Academy Awards ceremony include Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson. CH. 4. 10 p.m. Color. Live...
PETE 'N' TILLIE are Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett, two lonely San Franciscans gingerly approaching middle age. After a whimsical and rather winning courtship (the movie is at its best here, sweet and shrewd and funny), they settle down into suburbia. They have a boy named Robbie, bright and happy, who contracts a mysterious disease and dies before reaching adolescence. The marriage founders, breaks and is mended again. Based on the Peter DeVries novella Witch's Milk, Pete 'n' Tillie is a mixture of puns, wisecracks and tragedy. All this might have worked...
...example, Burnett, handily managing her first major film role, gets the sort of scene that actresses kill for: while Pete is upstairs playing with the dying Robbie, Tillie walks into the backyard and curses God ("You bastard, you bloody butcher") in a burst of fury and grief. But no sooner has she finished than her voice is heard again in narration on the sound track saying "Later, I could hardly believe that was me." It is as if studio executives, nervous about blasphemy by the country's TV sweet heart, wanted to smooth things over al most before they...