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MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (Capitol). As a TV extravaganza, the Beatles' Tour was a flop in Britain, but the album's songs from the show are agreeably Beatley. They include a softly' sudsy ditty called The Fool on the Hill; a toe-tapping piece that may serve as a generational link, Your Mother Should Know ("though she was born a long, long time ago"); and a wild lark called I Am the Walrus, with fast, fractured Lennonesque lyrics: "Man, you been a naughty boy. You let your face grow long." Side 2 contains such classics as Penny Lane...
...wild ad-lib energy that explodes in sight gags and punch lines. Mel Brooks, creator of TV's Get Smart, wrote and directed this piece of lunacy about a pair of sleazy producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who try to make a killing on a Broadway flop...
...scheduled to convene in Budapest next month. With Rumania and Yugoslavia boycotting the conference, and with a new and perhaps more freewheeling regime in Czechoslovakia, Ulbricht and Gomulka are left as the Kremlin's most trusted friends in its flagging campaign to isolate the renegade Chinese Communists. Any flop in the Budapest meeting, which is designed as a prelude to a larger assemblage in Moscow, would be a serious setback for Russian foreign policy...
...sleazy theatrical producer (Zero Mostel) enlists the aid of his wide-eyed accountant (Gene Wilder) in a convoluted cabal. Given the improper circumstances, a Broadway entrepreneur can make more from a flop than he can from a hit-by pocketing the backers' money after the show folds. Accordingly, the two men begin a search for the world's worst script. Mostel finally zeroes in on Springtime for Hitler, written by an unrepentant Nazi who believes that the Führer was infinitely superior to Churchill because he had more hair and besides, he was a better painter...
Castro's art exhibit was the highlight of an eight-day international cultural congress that ended in Havana last week. Though the congress was a flop as such affairs go-only a few of the big names invited showed up*-it was part of an old Castro strategy: when things go sour, divert the people's minds...