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...comes to hiring M.B.A.s. It employs a recruiting staff of 19 and has an extensive summer-intern program. After signing up students for summer jobs the year before they graduate, Citibank executives spend as much time selling the bank to the interns as they do evaluating their abilities. Says Marni Gislason, an intern from Harvard: "The program is very effective. You run into these surprisingly young M.B.A.s who have literally flown up in the ranks of the bank. They really believe that Citibank is the greatest thing since night baseball...
...ringer, and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white-hot verbal thrusts. As a footnote to Julie's new success, the film offers a wry bit of casting: one minor character, Sister Sophia, is played by Marni Nixon, who dubbed in some of Audrey Hepburn's songs in My Fair Lady...
...quota. There is a Fair Lady to swing to (by Andre Previn), another to sway to (by Sammy Kaye), one to weep by (Andy Williams), and one to sleep by (Percy Faith). There is also the new movie soundtrack, which has Rex Harrison in fine, fierce fettle. But Soprano Marni Nixon, dubbing in the voice of Eliza for Audrey Hepburn, sings with more finish than fire. Lovers of Broadway's fair lady, Julie Andrews, will insist on the original-cast recording, which has sold 5,000,000 copies...
...burning question mark of this sumptuous adaptation is Audrey Hepburn's casting as Eliza, the role that Julie Andrews had clearly been born to play. Purists may cavil that Hepburn's singing voice, most of it dubbed by Soprano Marni Nixon, sounds too much like Julie and not enough like Audrey. But after a slow start, when the practiced proficiency of her cockney dialect suggests that Actress Hepburn is really only slumming, she warms her way into a graceful, glamorous performance, the best of her career...
...When I'm singing opera, I'm a very good opera singer," says Marni Nixon in a self-appraisal that contains more professional confidence than mere egotism. "When I'm doing concerts, I have a lot of musicianship. And when I'm doing musical comedy, I have a certain flair there, too. I would love to do a Broadway show. I've been up for several, and it's getting quite close...