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...week Susskind's hostmanship finally blew the cork, deluged the show in fizz and fuzz. The occasion was the seasonal opener of Open End, and the evening's topic was a weighty one: Frank Sinatra's Clan. As panelists, Susskind invited some celebrated tosspots, including Jackie Gleason, Joe E. Lewis, Toots Shor and Actress Lenore Lemmon. When the program opened, it was apparent that most everyone was well fortified, and as it progressed, everybody helped himself to a liquid refreshment camouflaged in a teapot. Susskind, with some help from sharp-tongued Critic Marya Mannes, tried manfully...
Hefner's new baby is a smorgasbord of the performing arts, with just enough glimpses of feminine breast and thigh to entice readers whose theatrical tastes run no higher. It mostly plows tired ground: feature articles on Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Marlon Brando, plus reviews and listings of coming events that, together with the ads, occupy most of the first 53 pages. SBI's potential readership, says Associate Publisher A. C. Spectorsky (who holds the same title on Playboy), lies somewhere between magazines that cater to movie addicts and those that appeal to longhaired readers...
Francophile Kelly supervises Gleason's workaday lunches and explains: "I just order what I think would be a decent meal for three men, and when it's not enough, I order more." For working booze ("Whisky is for fun") Jackie absorbs six bottles a day of ruby-red Nuits-Saint-Georges-chilled, to the frigid disapproval of the Nuits-Saint-Georges bottlers...
...Gleason. of course, is primarily a TV clown in the U.S., and he is not well known to the French. Jackie professes to enjoy his place in the shade, and claims that "as soon as I get a day off, I'm going to a department store. I haven't dared go near one in years." But the anonymity is not likely to last. After a difficult day, Gleason issued from his penthouse at the George V looking, in spotless maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music...
...however, Parisians have obstinately refused to dig one aspect of Gleason's traveling circus: its title. Gigot was suggested by U.S. Crooner Andy Russell, a friend of Gleason who speaks restaurant French, when Jackie asked what one might call "a poor soul who just sort of lambs around." The trouble is that Russell was too literal-minded; gigot means merely "leg of mutton," and bilingual Frenchmen are wondering in some puzzlement whether Americans would laugh if Tati, for instance, made a movie in the U.S. and called himself "Rolled Rib Roast...