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...only one respect: the picture will not make money. To begin with, it constitutes a tired tract for the hysterical cult of hip that preaches salvation through syncopation. The plot, moreover, is a canned arrangement played to death in a dozen previous pictures of this sort: progressive jazzbo (Bobby Darin) goes commercial; loses art, loses heart, loses girl (Stella Stevens); but in the reprise he straightens out and flies right. The script is an anthology of unintentional hilarities. "Just where do I stand," the heroine hollers angrily when the hero advises her to give up sex, "without my body...
Born. To Bobby Darin, 25, Bronx-born groaner (Mack the Knife), and Sandra Dee, 19, blonde, bubbly cinema starlet (Tammy Tell Me True): their first child, a son; in Hollywood...
...they complement. Their marching and twirling routines are in finitely more intricate than football plays, their costumes more beguiling, their pride and discipline more astonishing. For every struggling, prancing, stick-swinging, tail-twitching majorette in the nation, there are about too or so others who would give every Bobby Darin record they own to get on the squad. The searing competition carries into home and family. Costumes have to be sewn or bought (for as much as $100). Many mothers are as ferociously competitive as stage mothers. They preside over home practice sessions and grooming, chauffeur the girls to rehearsals...
...Greek producer-director Jules Dassin ("Rififi"), is at least funny, and consistently so. It has an interesting outlook, and Melina Mercouri too--who is a major part of the outlook. Starts Wednesday: COME SEPTEMBER, a comedy of questionable value starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee and (inevitably) Bobby Darin. The story of attempted seduction on the Riviera, it is inconsistently funny, but it has its moments...
...have difficulty obtaining automobile insurance have no such problem with rented cars. Claims Nate Rosenberg of Alert Car Rental (T-Bird, Cadillac convertibles, Continentals, etc.): "The stars make so much money they can't afford a car. I got 'em all: Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Bob Kennedy, Peter Lawford, Conrad Nagel. It's a million-bucks-a-year business...