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That Touch of Mink. No one cares what happens to a girl on a yacht, so does anyone care what happens to a girl (Doris Day) who is outfitted at Bergdorf Goodman, flown to Bermuda by jet, and escorted into a plush hotel by her millionaire (Cary Grant) would-be seducer? Well, Scriptwriters Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monaster do, since they stand to make a great deal more money out of the heroine's virginity than any virgin ever...
Once one is resigned to the fatuous, bankrupt conventions of will-she, won't-she, should-she, shouldn't-she, Mink offers a modicum of fun. The best line has nothing to do with the plot: "Some day there's going to be an uprising and the masses will regain the misery they're entitled...
Nothing in Washington's International Jazz Festival was quite so impressive as the sight and sound of an ample woman swathed in yellow chiffon walking down the aisle, borrowing hats, a mink cape and a couple of purses, while singing Packin' Up (for a trip to the "Great Beyond"). Singer Marion Williams was remarkable not only for her display of a gold tooth embellished with a star, but also for her voice-supple, easy-ranging and capable of lyric flights and hallelujah shouts of shattering force. Singer Williams and the other members of her Stars of Faith group...
...that royal reserve might keep the palace from sending out for one on their own. An interested observer to the picture taking was King Baudouin, an enthusiastic amateur photographer who adjusted his wife's necklace so that it would photograph better, and suggested that she wear a white mink stole...
...fond of serious music; almost all play the piano. Iran's Farah, the Ivory Coast's Marie-Thérèse Houphouet-Boigny and Monaco's Princess Grace all buy clothes from Dior, though Grace also fancies Balenciaga (who designed Belgian Queen Fabiola's mink-trimmed bridal gown), and in her Hollywood days was dressed by Oleg Cassini (now Jackie's couturier). Save for Fabiola, who had a miscarriage last summer but is reported pregnant again, all the reigning beauties are devoted mothers whose main occupational complaint is that their children have to spend...