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While making Exodus in Israel in 1960, Movie Producer Otto Preminger found himself so in love with his costume coordinator, ex-Model Patricia Hope Bryce, that he wanted to marry her there and then. There was a problem, though: marriages between Jews and non-Jews are impossible in Israel, and Hope's Jewishness was not exactly easy to establish. Otto's solution, says Meyer Weisgal, then head of Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, in his just published autobiography, was to promise the Weizmann Institute a $1,000,000 share in royalties from Exodus in return...
Born. To Seiji Ozawa, 36, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and onetime protege of Leonard Bernstein, and Vera Ozawa, an ex-model: their first child, a girl; in San Francisco...
While the argument rages, Russell has been busy in London editing his new film. It is an adaptation of Sandy Wilson's 1954 musical pastiche of the '20s, The Boy Friend, starring ex-Model Twiggy, 21, in her acting debut. "A natural," says Russell. "The greatest thing to hit the screen since Monroe." Russell says the script, which he roughed out in five days as "therapy" after The Devils, is at once "a typical stage musical of the '20s, an homage to the great film musical fantasies and a satire on all the backstage Hollywood musicals...
Naturally, Marya Mannes, thinly disguised as a bright, sixtyish, musically inclined writer named Kate, winds up like that, in her family's year-round beach house. Along with her is an aging cross section of the New York cultural scene: a ham-fisted objective painter and his ex-model wife, a famous composer of Broadway show tunes, a celebrated ex-Viennese conductor...
There are other signs that the costume look may get out of hand. Sculptress Marisol finds the speed with which costumes change puzzling and hard to keep up with. Ex-Model Wilhelmina worries because "I want to be a lady in the long run, not a teen-ager." Alexander's high-powered Fashion Director Francine Farkas, who is responsible for the store's considerable success in selling young people on the new way of dressing, nevertheless thinks that it can lead to "uniformed individuality," meaning that the combination of wide-legged pants, vests and chains has been overworked...