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Heavy spending, of course, no more guarantees success now than it did in the 1960s. Fox's $12 million Lucky Lady, starring Liza Minnelli, has been an utter flop that contributed heavily to the studio's first-quarter loss of $1.6 million. But moviemaking costs have risen so rapidly that it is just about impossible to attain special-event quality without a huge budget. Special effects like those in The Poseidon Adventure or Earthquake are frightfully expensive to film. Such "bankable" stars as Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand can easily command $1 million a picture; top-name directors...
JOEL GREY'S DIABOLICAL LEER, Liza Minelli's divinely decadent green nail polish and nervous mannerisms and the way her magnificent, ringing voice transfigured both in the lurid glare of the Kit Kat Klub--these are images that linger long and powerfully from the film version of Cabaret. From the growing horror of Nazism in Weimar Germany, the film cut artfully to the dazzling, perverse world of the cabaret, which grotesquely parodied an even more grotesque reality. The effect was to present a society in which decent human relationships were impossible, where human contacts were uniformly debased to the level...
Spillars, on the other hand, plays Sally Bowles and not Liza Minelli, giving a performance far less mannered and extreme than her film counterpart. Spillars' interpretation works best during her parting with her American lover, when she allows flippancy to imperfectly shield deep pain. Unfortunately, in her musical numbers, Spillars is more intent on mimicking Minelli, and the contrast between original and imitation is hardly flattering...
...swinging Senator, a couple of dancin'-fool actresses, a Russian-born ballet star, and what have you got? A floor show-if the principals are Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who went into action last week at the Iranian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The occasion: a raucous, boozy party by Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi in honor of the American...
...Among them: Marisa Berenson, Carol Charming, Mrs. Gianni Agnelli, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Lauren Bacall, Raquel Welch, Ali MacGraw, Mrs. William Mc-Cormick Blair Jr., Mrs. Charles Revson, Liza Minnelli, Lee Radziwill and her sister Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who, at her first husband's inauguration, wore a Halston's pillbox hat-backward. Despite Jackie's mistake, the hat became a rage and helped make Halston famous...