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Cement Mixer, Burt Lancaster doing acrobatics, Jayne Mansfield playing the violin, Lauren Bacall reading Casey at the Bat, and James Cagney and Jack Lemmon dancing...
...those slow afternoons in a Beverly Hills auto showroom, and Burt Sugarman, 28, the smoothly pompadoured proprietor, noodled at his desk. In the window reclined a long, low, old-fashioned jobbie with running boards, bicycle fenders and blindingly chromed supercharger exhausts curling out of the hood. Suddenly, an ill-clad geek with long hair popped into the shop. Sonny Buono, of Sonny and Cher, pointed at the glittery relic and asked: "What's that?" "Excalibur," replied Sugarman. "I'll take it," chirped Sonny...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The Mamas and The Papas, Dionne Warwick, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Mercer and Burt Bacharach get together in "The song-makers," explaining how they test-and play to-the public's ever-changing taste. Repeat...
...architect of Dionne's success is Songwriter Burt Bacharach Jr., 39, son of the syndicated columnist, who discovered her six years ago when she was swinging doo-wap-dee-doo backgrounds in a recording studio. When she first appeared for an audition in pigtails, dungarees and sneakers, Bacharach was immediately impressed: "She has a tremendous strong side and a delicacy when singing softly-like miniature ships in bottles." Musically, she was "no play-safe girl. What emotion I could get away with!" And what complexity, compared with the usual run of pop songs. In Bacharach's Anyone...
...WAGON. A standard western that has style and gusto, thanks to Old Pros John Wayne and Kirk Douglas and the taut direction of Burt Kennedy...