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DIZZY GOES HOLLYWOOD (Philips) could more properly be called Hollywood Goes Dizzy, and what a way to go. Gillespie's trumpet throws flames octaves high while it sears eleven songs and movie themes, including those from Caesar and Cleopatra, Never on Sunday and Lawrence of Arabia. Walk on the Wild Side gets the most extended and exploratory treatment along the lines of its title...
...striding through the courtyards of Hagia Sophia, the boys appear to consider shore leave a time for exercise. The shallow narration, sung and sniggered through by Burl Ives, steers a hazardous course from banality ("And now we say farewell to the land of the Sun God") to banality ("Cleopatra's golden chair asks: 'What happened to my beautiful owner?' "). What might have been an inquisitive and refreshingly youthful look into one corner of the world becomes merely a series of large, conventional, tasteless postcards...
...Cleopatra produced No. 5. "The way I began falling in love with Richard was very funny, really . . . The first day we were to work together, I've never seen a gentleman so hung over in my whole life. He was kind of quivering from head to foot and there were grog blossoms-you know, from booze -all over his face. He ordered a cup of coffee to sort of still his trembling fits and I had to help it to his mouth, and that just endeared him so to me. I thought, well, he really is human...
Buff can also swing a benefit. To Hollywood stars and moneymen, it seemed presumptuous to ask $250 a ticket just to go to the movies, but they paid it for Buff's benefit premiere of Cleopatra...
...companies, the annual stockholders' meeting in recent years has become a raucous cross between a stage show and a shouting match. Profanity and horn honking disrupted Communications Satellite Corp.'s session last month. President Darryl F. Zanuck had to outshout hecklers-one of whom came dressed as Cleopatra-at the 20th Century-Fox Films meeting, and shareowners peppered management of the A. & P. with a talkathon that included a suggestion that it make cottage cheese easier to find in its stores. Usually armed with a little bit of stock and a lot of cheek, professional scolds seldom miss...