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...longer appears on television; he has not even made a personal appearance in four years. All he does is make a few records and three movies a year. For his just finished picture, Harem Holiday, which he completed in 18 days from start to finish, he was paid $1,000,000. The other two pictures he will make this year are on older, less lucrative contracts, so he will only clear $1,000,000 or so for the pair. "These are Presley pictures," explains an M-G-M studio man who worked on five of them. "They...
...Notre Dame in a legal hassle over whether it damages that school's good name (TIME, Dec. 18). It remains a brash and dreary jape, climaxed by a sequence in which Notre Dame's football squad flies off to a mythical Middle Eastern sheikdom to cavort with harem houris, then takes the field against an Arab eleven coached by a wandering Jewish U-2 pilot...
...says Hesburgh, the hard-won image is endangered by a $4,000,000 Hollywood farce called John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, in which Shirley MacLaine and a platoon of harem houris corrupt the Notre Dame football team. Last week in Manhattan, Notre Dame charged foul play, filed an in junction in New York State Supreme Court to block 20th Century-Fox from showing the movie...
There's a tastelessness about it that's deadly, except perhaps to an audience of bearded ladies. Actress Reynolds, more manic than manly, spouts oddly androgynous jokes about her Jockey shorts, recalls the harem of floozies she and Tony were "making out with" not so long ago, even lewdly ogles the women in a plush beauty salon. While Tony skitters about, fighting the impulse to take his best friend in his arms and kiss him, Charlie wards off the advances of Pat Boone (sacred love) and Walter Matthau (profane). By the last reel, he/she/it has turned...
Keeping the oath was not easy. As King, Saud squandered fortunes on his pleasures, chief of which were a huge harem. Next to women, Saud liked air-conditioned Cadillacs best, and next to Cadillacs, intrigue. In contrast, Feisal was almost a puritan: though thrice married, he lives with only one wife at a time and, for the past 20 years, his consort has been Turkish-educated Princess Iffat. He speaks fluent French and English as well as Arabic, and has tried to use his country's oil millions for the benefit of the people...