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...boring," he sighed. "It's always such a hassle to get to the movie and then go out somewhere else for the ball." And so, being heeled to deal with things he can't stand, Hunt brought the show to the ball. At his Fete de Fevrier, a small social for 600 to raise funds for his Foundation of Modern Art, he arranged to have the U.S. premiere of the film souffle, Made in Paris, held right after dinner in the New York Hilton's Grand Ballroom. Over their coffee and tea, Salvador Dali and the rest...
...museum's attendance-45,000 on Sunday alone-might be honor enough, but Rorimer, nearing his tenth anniversary as director, is far from finished with his dreaming. Last week's fete will hardly be the Met's last supper. He announced plans for a $4,000,000 wing for American art. Not normally known as well-established in art of the New World, the Met has just a few things begging to find wall space there. Among its U.S. painting treasures, rarely seen together for lack of gallery space, are 37 Sargents, 22 Gilbert Stuarts, 15 Homers...
Bearded Irish Cinemactor Peter O'Toole, 31, plays the messenger of God who gets saved from a fete worse than death in Sodom in John Huston's The Bible, now afilming in Rome. Off the set, he rains sulphur and brimstone all by himself, according to the paparazzi who tried to snap him downing some friendly firewater with comely British Starlet Barbara Steele. "He charged me, punched me in the face, grabbed my camera, smacking it against my ear," related one razed lensman. "I had to have five stitches taken." Tinkled O'Toole, with the tongue...
...royal consorts. On the first day, the army and navy fired 21-gun salutes, while roses smothered Bangkok's main boulevard. On the second, Buddhist monks chanted as the Queen lit candles in the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. On the third, the royal household organized a charity fete, with a specially built nightclub resounding to the King's private orchestra, Bhumibol tootling on the clarinet. After all, his gemlike regent's name translates into "Joy of the Family...
...fact, they do not often sell newsmen, who have a nasty habit of biting the very hand that treats them. In the stories that flow at new-model time, there is little evidence that their authors are drunk with gratitude for their hosts. After General Motors' 1962 fete, New York Times Automotive Editor Joseph Ingraham filed a story accusing Chevrolet of plagiarizing the competition. Says Chrysler's public relations man William Stempien: "Most of the guys lean over backward to show how independent they...