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...author tell it, his motives for writing the book were purely humanitarian. "From the moment that the Jews are no longer a minority but a majority," he explains, "the Jewish problem, which is one of a minority, ceases to be one." Barons Guy (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1963) and Edmond de Rothschild went to court on the grounds that the book contained "a string of intolerable defamations and offenses to the dignity and consideration of a great family." In defense, Peyrefitte's lawyer argued that the Rothschilds, "like all the greats of this world, are open to public criticism...
Justice Rouanet de Vigne-Lavit agreed with the defense, ordered Peyrefitte's publisher merely to delete eleven lines of the 514-page book that raise a question about Edmond's lineage. Crowed Peyrefitte: "This time the Rothschilds have been beaten by the mind, by literature. They thought they were strong enough to win this one because they had Pompidou. At least this proves that the government is still honest." And that authors have a lot of leeway...
...romance is obviously doomed, despite group therapy and a volley of platitudes spouted by Eartha Kitt, Richard Conte and Edmond O'Brien, who with marginal success impersonate three real-life directors of Synanon House. Most of the time they appear to be running out-of-town auditions for Actors Studio. The movie's vacuous approach to a heartbreakingly grim subject is underscored by the presence in the film of bona fide former addicts, asked to do nothing whatever that might keep a misguided movie from going...
...turns out to be Carroll Baker, who dolls up many a flashback as Maharis treks across country jogging the memories of Viveca Lindfors, Edmond O'Brien, Ann Sothern and others. He learns that Sylvia was raped in Pittsburgh in her teens, drifted into prostitution in Mexico, developed a taste for book learning, and graduated to $100-a-night status as a Manhattan call girl employed by a transvestite panderer named Lola. Then a sadistic lover's $10,000 payoff permitted her "to acquire travel, Europe and culture." Finally face to face with his quarry, Maharis discovers that loose...
Tuesday, December 22 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Special Christmas program starring Singer Howard Keel, Dancers Violette Verdy and Edmond Novak. Color...