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...Maurice Hirsch abruptly announced last week that Previn's contract will not be renewed. Hirsch indicated that the orchestra's sponsors were disgruntled over Previn's outside commitments, notably his romance with the London Symphony Orchestra. Another problem seems to have been Previn's mod, madcap ways. His romps in blue jeans through the city's nightspots with Mia Farrow have been amply recorded by local gossip columnists. For his part, Previn is outraged. "The town is musically wide-open for new things," he said, "but the orchestra is run by the most conservative group...
Married. David Hemmings, 27, mod, madcap British acting sensation (BlowUp, Charge of the Light Brigade); and Gayle Hunnicut, 25, leggy, Texas-born starlet (P.J.), whom Hemmings "married" in an Italian chapel last year in an impromptu ceremony uncluttered by the presence of a clergyman, which he admitted was "emotional and impetuous and, we later realized, quite invalid"; in a Presbyterian ceremony; he for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...other half of the book, Albert Handley-a middle-aged madcap painter presiding over a whole circus of a family in Lincolnshire-rages against the sudden wealth and new-found fame threatening his old bohemian way of life. His children pester him for money, journalists hound him for interviews. Visions of unborn paintings torment his days and nights. He, too, claims to be a revolutionary-making money so that he can tear down the social structure that feeds...
...madcap finale to a Harvard freshman baseball team's first undefeated season since 1900, the Yardlings were behind all the way until the last inning. With two outs in the tenth and the score 2-2, the freshman murderers' row went to work...
...bright then, and it's been downhill since"). By 22, he had left a director's job at a local television station to tour Europe and Africa on $2 a day, coming to rest later at the BBC. There he was assigned to Peter Sellers' memorable madcap comedy series, The Goon Show, which in spirit at least resembled Lester's later movies. "We did sketches that had no beginnings and no endings," he recalls. "They would just evolve into totally unrelated situations. You would have a spiral staircase, for example, and down it would be coming...