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WHEN A SHOW called Camelot opened on Broadway nearly a decade ago, one critic wrote that it was the first time he had come out of a musical humming the scenery...
...first installment of My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy appeared in the July Ladies' Home Journal and caused an immediate furor. Based on Jackie's private memos, letters and financial records, it pictures the Queen of Camelot as vain, petty, self-indulgent, ill-tem pered and neglectful of her husband. According to Mrs. Gallagher, Jackie spent $40,000 in one year for clothes but tried to economize by serving White House guests leftover drinks, hoarding gifts of food customarily turned over to charities and selling her used clothes...
...British monarchy may well be a contemporary "retreat to Camelot" [June 27], but it is a far more enjoyable adventure than that provided by the droll leadership of most Western republics. At least the monarchy, for all of its faults, gives us some relief from the total lack of style of most of today's politicians...
...Barbarella-- truly wretched films in need of a little deflating. For this we thank them, although somehow the point of a Movie Worsts issue tends to get lost when we find ourselves passively agreeing with it. The highlight of the ensuing presentation is the "Great Ceremonial Hotdog" award to Camelot's Franco Nero "for a zoom across two miles of field, up a castle wall and into his crotch while he sang 'C'est Moi.'" It's unfortunately the only highlight of an otherwise substandard creation...
...Camelot--An overblown adaptation of the Lerner & Lowe musical, with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. But swell music. At the FRESH POND in Fresh Pond, Cambridge...