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...Leonard Home). Geller says Aubrey's changes made the central character, a violent garage mechanic, too sympathetic, played down the picture's redneck setting and eliminated a climactic murder scene. Says he: "It's not my picture any more." > Director Blake Edwards (Pink Panther, Darling Lili) has stopped post-production work on his film A Case of Need, and instructed his lawyers to file a breach of contract suit against Aubrey. The studio chief, says Edwards, reneged on promised script changes to enhance the love interest between Stars James Coburn and Jennifer O'Neill, cut Edwards...
...with his young buddy (Ryan O'Neal). It is a role that owes much to the character he created in The Wild Bunch, and the film itself owes similar debts to such illustrious predecessors as Red River and The Searchers. Writer-Director Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, Darling Lili) is more at home with gilded entertainments than campfire yarns. There is the distinct feeling about Wild Rovers that Edwards could not wait to get off the prairie and back to the penthouse...
...Manhattan hooker is no wistful Lili Marlene swinging a sad handbag under the street light. She is a feral and formidable bird of prey-as West Germany's ex-Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 55, discovered at 2:30 one morning last week. Outside the Plaza Hotel just off Fifth Avenue, he was accosted by three women in a yellow car. One of them got out and suggested the possibility of deepening their relationship. "I took the whole thing from the ironic side," says Strauss. But the lady took the whole thing from another side, light-fingered his wallet...
...just the man to run Gulf & Western's new bauble, Paramount, and put him in charge. Evans started well, with successful films, including The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Rosemary's Baby and Goodbye, Columbus. But he also shepherded some monumental losers, notably Paint Your Wagon and Darling Lili...
Still, despite its G-rated upbeatness, Darling Lili leaves an ineradicable aura of melancholia. A major talent is still settling for that vanilla species, the common, overproduced, unclerinspired feature (Cinema vulgaris). ∙Stefan Kanfer