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Crack Up the Cars. Anhalt has since turned out two scripts for Elvis Presley, a Western, two comedies (Wives and Lovers and Boeing, Boeing) and, for Paramount, Affair in Arcady ("I call it an original because the novel was about a Chicago gangster turned Virginia farmer and the screenplay was about the late dictator of Iraq, Kassem"). He has just completed a TV script, A Time for Killing, with George C. Scott (Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, April 30), and is working on The Cruel Sport, a screen script about "the morality of Grand Prix racing...
...Heiress polluted by Deborah's guileful malevolence; The Alger Dream of self-made empires gone rotten in her father's diabolic machinations; The Westerner Dream of the loner on the borderlines of society perverted now by the company he must keep; The Dreams of the Con Man, The Urban Gangster, The White Negro (a myth Mailer helped himself to make) all corrupted, immeasureably soiled by the evil of our national life until there are tenable dreams no longer but only the will, and the courage if not the strength to escape to Guatamala or Yucatan...
...Playwright Simon says Matthau is "the greatest instinctive actor I ve ever seen " He has turned in impeccable, widely varied performances as a sardonic sheriff in Lonely Are the Brave, a show-stopping jealous Hungarian husband in Goodbye Charlie, the heavy in Charade, and a phrase-chomping gangster in Who's Got the Action, and he picked up a 1962 Tony Award as Broadwav's best supporting actor his haughty portrayal of a French aristokrat in A Shot in the Dark But until Odd Couple, the lead role had always escaped him. Instead, he has done everything else...
Added Paris-Jour: "The stupid Frenchman who says 'Don't go to the United States because Chicago is a gangster city, or to Dallas, the city of the rifle with the telescopic sight, or to Las Vegas, racket capital,' doesn't find a very big audience. Let's hope that Mr. Fulbright won't find any bigger one in America...
...name was Paul Rose, his mother was Pauline Rose, his sister's name is Paula, and his name is Paul Jr. Inevitably, neighbors called them The Four Roses. "On radio," says Biff, "the bad guys are always called Biff. I was an ugly, ugly baby, a big gangster baby, and Mother said I looked like a Biff...