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With Wife Dory, a former MGM lyricist, he is committed to write an 18-song musical score for Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a movie starring Richard Burton. And he will score two films, The Graduate and Catch-22, directed by his close pal Mike Nichols. Previn figures that he can do all this with half of one hand, while bearing down on stage, podium and recording studio. "Now, at least, I am responsible for my own mistakes," he says. "It's better than all those years when I was going from Lassie to Debbie Reynolds." Of course, between the dogs...
...medium." So he tried to turn it into a play, then a musical. By 1962 he had fashioned an interesting if offbeat script dealing with Cervantes' windmill-tilting life. And tilting a little himself, he started collaborating with a couple of unknowns, Songwriter Mitch Leigh and Lyricist Joe Darion. Albert Marre (Kismet, Milk and Honey) agreed to direct; Singer Joan Diener and Perennial Leading Man Richard Kiley (Redhead, No Strings) signed on as leads...
...Gershwin, D.F.A., song lyricist...
...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
...right artistically, but, unfortunately, this is the way it will sell." He may suggest a less complicated "story line," or a different twist to the melody, or a switch in rhythm. He also knows how to boost a youngster's ego. Composer Tommy Boyce, 22, and Lyricist Bobby Hart, 23, came in from Hollywood last week, played Donnie a new ballad called Sunday, the Day Before Monday...