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Born Yesterday is a late '40s remake of the Pygmalion story. The movie is pretty drab, even for fluff, but Judy Holliday stole the show and saved it with her portrayal of the dumbest of all dumb blondes. The revival at the Loeb has its own virtues: see page two. Born Yesterday is playing Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets half an hour before the performance, at the door...
...commentaries on the traumas of working on the road, on the sociology of backstage life, the horrible, wrenching, self-divisive experience of being an artiste. At its worst, this heightened sensitivity has produced such apparitions as Billy Joel's "Piano Man;" at its best, self-congratulatory pieces of fluff like Truffaut's "Day for Night" ("A film is like a train in the night," the director tells his leading...
...violently in paroxysms. As if two wills were fighting for it--one impelling it down the mountain trail, to swirl light-fingered down the moguls, and the other pulling back in horror from the touch of the slick ice or hard packed snow or rocks beneath the powdery surface fluff...
Meanwhile, Savalas is giving a pretty good imitation of enjoying life. He storms without a fluff through grueling six-day weeks of shooting, barely stepping out of character to slip off the set and make phone calls to his bookie, and slurps ice cream happily, surrounded by Greek crew members. "Forget the fame, forget the money; that's nonsense. You get your friends jobs...
...High School switched to braids after continuous combing bouts with his crushed Afro. Other blacks who still favor the 'fro find that braids are better than any combs, conditioners or sprays in creating the cotton-candy shape. After a week of being tightly bound, the braids, when freed, fluff out into an attractively puffy bush...