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Thinly disguised for a time as a charwoman, Audrey plays the daughter of a fine old French family with a congenital weakness for forging old masters. Papa is Hugh Griffith, a shaggy rogue whose wickedly rolling orbs make him look like a cross between a pinball machine and a Rembrandt portrait. Griffith has turned Sunday painting into a world-famous collection of Cezannes, Van Goghs, Renoirs-all part of $100,000 worth of phony masterworks, especially commissioned to help Director William Wyler (The Collector) fashion this meticulous high comedy about ars graftia artis. Among the other experts at hand...
...will get me out of this filth one day. He is a God of mercy, dressed all in white and sitting on a golden throne." A Dutch charwoman says: "God is a ghost floating in space." Screenwriter Edward Anhalt (Becket) says that "God is an infantile fantasy, which was necessary when men did not understand what lightning was. God is a cop-out." A Greek janitor thinks that God is "like a fiery flame, so white that it can blind you." "God is all that I cannot understand," says a Roman seminarian. A Boston scientist describes God as "the totality...
...Labor government's aim is not only to wipe out Britain's trade deficit next year, but also to shock ordinary citizens, businessmen and labor into grasping the gravity of Britain's economic plight−and then reforming the featherbedding, from chairman to charwoman, that has helped to cause it. Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently warned that "complacent and prosperous manufacturers must get off their backsides," insisted that Britain can no longer tolerate "workers who inflict harm on production with go-slows or sporadic strikes in defiance of their own union." A government report has just accused...
...Shakeing All Over." Whitmore was hustled to the station house and grilled for 26 hours. Next day, the city's top police brass triumphantly displayed the youth before TV news cameras as the confessed perpetrator of three crimes -the attempted rape, the unsolved killing of a Brooklyn charwoman, and the Wylie-Hoffert murders. The nurse, police said, had identified Whitmore. As to the double murder, police said that Whitmore diagramed the career girls' apartment for them and was even carrying a snapshot of Janice Wylie that he had snatched from her dresser. To be sure, Whitmore recanted...
...Gabor makes out of her libido. "Crawling out of bed, I girdled myself," she would write, "with the aid of a block and tackle." Or, "I've been favorably compared to a whale, a pachyderm, a hippopotamus, an untidy featherbed, an Eskimo igloo during the summer thaw, a charwoman at daybreak. Prince Christian of Hesse, spotting me in bathing costume offshore at Antibes, mistook me for a rubber mattress. But I became a celebrity anyhow...