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Moments later, Actor Rip Torn, who has played a bodyguard called Raoul Key O'Houlihan, goes after Mailer (or Kingsley) with a hammer. "You're supposed to die, Mr. Kingsley," Torn yells. "You must die, not Mailer." The director stares at him in frightened disbelief. At that moment, Mailer later said, it was impossible for him to tell whether Torn was serious or only acting. Torn claimed he was acting, but audiences still cannot tell as they watch the episode. In this scene Mailer achieves his objective: the melding of screen illusion and reality...
...must have been a magic mirror. After 15 years, Sally Kellerman is one of the screen's loveliest and most delightful comediennes, a fortuitous cross between Kay Kendall and Carole Lombard. Last week her work as Major "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the heretical M*A*S*H won her a nomination for an Academy Award...
Married. Sally Kellerman, 32, screen actress who galvanized audiences as Nurse Hot Lips Houlihan in M*A*S*H; and Film Director Rick Edelstein, 41 (The Dirty Movie); she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...strutting around on the set with a riding crop, Altman is likely to operate the clapstick himself and encourage suggestions from second assistants and electricians. An Altman film is more like an improvisational encounter group than a showcase for stars and plot. Sally Kellerman, who played Nurse Hot Lips Houlihan in M*A*S*H, reports that "even my analyst said it did more for me than a man could." Working for Altman, says Sally, is "like recess at grammar school...
Bets are taken on the genuine blondeness of Nurse Hot Lips Houlihan, and an ingenious method is found to reveal her in the shower. The doctors' young houseboy is encouraged to beat the Korean draft by accelerating his heartbeat with Speed. The pious Major Burns (Robert Duvall) is driven into a strait-jacket when his bed is bugged during a furtive love scene with Hot Lips. Their jubilant moans are broadcast on the camp's public-address system...