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...alltime Music Hall record for box-office gross-something close to $2,000,000. About 21,000 people a day have been queuing their way to Molly despite all the heat of summer. She thus breaks the $1,885,335 record of 1962's That Touch of Mink, a Gary Granter, which in turn replaced Fanny ($1,573,580), which in turn replaced The Great Caruso...
...Churches, thinks that bazaar workers should do some thing more beneficial for the spiritual life of the church, like visiting the sick and the aged in hospitals. But in May the Congregational church in wealthy Winnetka, a Chicago suburb, held a rummage sale that raised $40,000 from donated mink coats, a color TV set, designer clothes, original paintings, crystal and china...
Persuasion Trouble. Fellman considers himself a kind of marriage broker. "You have to be a diplomat, banker, mother and pacifist," he says. He has paired Aldon nylon carpets with a Chrysler Corp. M-60 tank (to demonstrate durability). Eastern 727 Whisper-jets and Du Pont fabrics, Muriel cigars and mink coats-and Carol Channing and her boat and bounty. Fellman insists that finding a theme to carry a tie-in is only part of his problem. The real trouble comes in persuading a brace of sponsors to accept an idea, and figuring out how much each should pay for sharing...
Bedtime Story is a witless, one-joke soporific concocted by a pair of usually wide-awake Hollywood pitchmen. This time out, Producer-Writer Stanley Shapiro (Lover Come Back, That Touch of Mink) and Co-Author Paul Henning have pitched a Mickey to the comic muse. Story unfolds against rear-projection views of the Riviera, where a bogus Highness (David Niven) and an ex-U.S. Army corporal (Marlon Brando) pool their resources to squeeze a living out of wealthy women such as Dody Goodman, an Omaha madcap just born to be trimmed. The thieves fall out, of course, when they...
...returns with a case or two of cigarettes along with his corvina. Last month customs men in Buenos Aires decided to have a look at are turning Argentine courier's suspiciously bulky duffel bag, all duly marked and sealed as a "diplomatic pouch." It contained 124 blue mink pelts. And then there is the army of "ant smugglers," the ordinary travelers who sneak everything from gems to Japanese cameras across the porous borders in their bulging luggage...