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Detective Fred Otash testified that Hollywood Research, Inc., a listening post manned by a niece of Confidential Publisher Robert Harrison, the king of leer, paid him more than $30,000 a year for his services. Among Otash's assignments: spying from bushes on Anita Ekberg, and taking telephoto-lens movies of her and her husband-to-be, Anthony Steel; "checking" some 200 Hollywood expose stories in two years for Harrison and others...
...California attorney general's office is considering steps to prosecute Confidential for criminal libel and distribution of lewd material. There was good reason to doubt that the klieg-lit legislators would effectively police bedroom journalism, or indeed should. In fact, by emphasizing the zeal with which the leer-and-smear brigade sifts its dirt, the senate hearings lent some support to the smut-peddlers' argument that scurrility can be justified if it is accurate. Nevertheless, few responsible editors could agree with Publisher Harrison that "the truth never smears anybody." The issue that was largely ignored last week...
...climax, however, comes next day. Bogart goes over to Benko's place to pick up his boy's purse. After the bossman's deductions are made, it comes to exactly $49.07. "Fighters," somebody remarks with a self-satisfied leer, "are dirt...
...first act of the Metropolitan Opera's new Don Pasquale, Baritone Frank Guarrera peeks behind a screen where Coloratura Roberta Peters is making an onstage costume change. "Brava," he sings with a leer. "Brava, brava!" That sentiment might well serve as comment on the whole production. Peters & Co. have turned Gaetano Donizetti's old (1843) comic opera into something to cheer about...
...while taxing it. The film has been subtly directed by Henri Verneuil, handsomely produced by Raoul Ploquin, admirably helped with a good supporting cast. But Fernandel is a Judas goat who leads every minute of Sheep to its zany consummation. With the slightest nuances of his elastic face-a leer, a bucktoothed grin, a cocker-spaniel look of sadness-he proves that he is one of the most versatile comedians alive...