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...burly Boston Brahmin who was financial editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a paper partly owned by his family. Peter could do nothing right, or so it seemed. First he winked at her. "My God," thought Beverly, "that's not a very novel approach." Next he sent her a mash note on the inside of a matchbook cover. Then, dining her in his 25-room house on Lake Erie, he lit a fire but forgot to open the chimney flue; the smoke routed them both, coughing and wheezing. "Mama," reported Beverly when she got home, "I think...
...garbage movie by a great director: the Bergman attention to detail is there, the symbolism machine churning, with ingenuity if without a point or poignancy. But somehow Bergman's most basic instincts have failed him. It is said he decided to cast Gould in The Touch after seeing not MASH, but I Love My Wife, where Gould, fresh from Candy Bergen and Getting Straight, and well on his way to becoming an almost-was, turned in a performance as smarmy as the one he gives here...
...says one screenwriter. Few worry that Charlton Heston, who used to command a cool million a picture, now has to make do with $300,000. "There aren't stars any more. We're all up for grabs," says Sally Kellerman, who made her name in MASH, but lives in a "regular-size house with not enough view to be depressing. From here we can't see the city or the studios falling apart." Which in her view is only their just reward. "Film makers here are finally being forced to dig deeper and come up with statements...
James Kardon must have had a riot writing the script. It's wild and fanciful, unfettered by plot or logic. The dialogue is a great mish-mash of half-digested morsels from Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Coleridge, Jefferson Airplane, the Beatles and whatever else was floating through Kardon's consciousness as he held pen in hand. The mysterious phrase that serves as title pops up again and again, meaning nothing in particular but continually teasing the audience...
...Mash Notes. They are all puppets. Manipulated and animated by two men, Francis Peschka and Gordon Murdock, both 50, they have been attracting enchanted, totally devoted audiences at the 24-seat Little Players cheater for over a decade. To most of their fans, the Standwells are far more real than the cardboard actors of Broadway. Mail comes addressed to the puppets: mash notes to Mademoiselle, formal thank-yous to Isabelle, extravagant fan letters to Elsie. Bette Davis used to telephone the theater regularly for reservations, asking for "Miss Lump, please...