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...notion is so outrageously melodramatic that Preminger was probably right in choosing to play it for comedy. He even got Elaine May to rewrite the script. Miss May, however, shrewdly chose not to have her name appear on the screen credits. The large and generally unsubtle cast includes James Coco, who acts with grotesque abandon, Ken Howard, Jennifer O'Neill and Nina Foch...
...have hit the road with a touring company of the musical Coco, but, fumed Katharine Hepburn, she has not been reduced to selling pickled herring for a living. Charging that the makers of Vita products had been imitating her distinctively nasal tones in radio commercials, the actress sued the herring marinaters and their advertising agency, Solow/Wexton, Inc., for $4,000,000 in damages. What they had done, said Hepburn, was to lead her fans to think that she had "stooped to perform below her class, stature, prestige and prominence...
...Antonio Coco, a wealthy Spanish industrialist, is in a car accident that leaves him paralvzed and amnesiac. While he sits immobile in a wheelchair, prey to guilt-ridden hallucinations, his estate and manufacturing company fall into hopeless disarray. Decisions are left unmade, allowances stop, family discipline falls apart and, worse, a Swiss bank account number is lost. The process of the film becomes an attempt on the part of his family, mistress, and attendants, to shock Antonio back into health by acting out various psychological traumas of his past (a punishment in which he is locked in his room with...
...wonderful to "come home" to Hartford, Katharine Hepburn told the audience at Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall when she opened her musical, Coco, there last week. "It's very emotional being here," she added, her voice trembling. Then Kate went home to another emotional encounter. A female chauffeur whom she had fired for rudeness was discovered hiding in a closet with a hammer, and it took the 61-year-old actress, her stepmother, 70, her secretary and another chauffeur ten minutes to subdue her. Kate emerged from the fray with a new memento of Hartford-a finger that was fractured...
Died. Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 87, for much of the 20th century la plus grande dame of high fashion (see MODERN LIVING...