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Niven alone survives disaster by coasting through the film ever so lightly. Early on, before the first fissures appear, he issues a nimble challenge to his costar: "Are you proposing to pit your crude animal instincts against intelligence, culture and breeding?" Unfortunately Brando answers yes, then lumbers on to demonstrate how a potentially great talent can petrify through miscasting and misuse. In one scene he attempts to seduce the mayor's daughter by performing a squalid striptease. Later, posing as a mentally defective prince, he gibbers like a traumatized gorilla and has to be spoon-fed. Then, pretending...
...what the heck. The color is nice and Christmassy, especially in the murder scenes. Hepburn looks real crazy in those crazy Givenchy vines. Her costar, who is 59, looks a feisty 45 and gives out with some grand Grant. In one episode, confronting a buxom grandma with an orange tucked underneath her chin, he grapples hilariously with a problem of some physiological intricacy: how to transfer the orange from her chin to his-without using his hands. In another, pretending to be shy, he blushingly refuses to get undressed in front of Hepburn, steps firmly under a shower and starts...
...leading lady quit in a fury, and her complaint was her costar. "If I told you some of the things that son of a bitch has done to me," said Elaine Stritch, "you wouldn't believe it. This play has been the most horrible experience of my life." The play was The Time of the Barracudas, which abruptly closed its pre-Broadway run in Los Angeles and was packed away in salt hay for extensive overhaul. The co-star was Laurence Harvey...
Trekking off to Africa to star in an adventure called The Lion last year, Cinemactor William Holden, 45, pawed the ground a little himself after he caught sight of his costar, lissome French Actress Capucine, 30. Next the two were teamed in a Far East thriller called Wherever Love Takes Me, in which Holden plays a rubber planter and Capucine is a Eurasian schoolteacher who becomes his mistress. By that time Holden had a pretty fair idea where love was taking him. He announced that he was breaking up his 22-year marriage (two sons) to former Hollywood Star Brenda...
Emerging from a three-day "rest and a general checkup" in a private psychiatric hospital in Manhattan, Vagabond Crooner Eddie Fisher protested at a high-pitched press conference that the only romance between Wife Elizabeth Taylor and her Cleopatra costar, Richard Burton, was onscreen. Laughing off rumors of breakup and breakdown as "preposterous, ridiculous and absolutely false," Fisher predicted a similar public disclaimer from Liz, but after a 15-minute transatlantic call, returned to the conference with a stricken look. "You know," he warbled in the most pitiable understatement of the week, "you can ask a woman to do something...