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...Marilyn Monroe costarred. Elaine Joyce will play the Monroe part and Bobby Morse will fill the Lemmon role. Jule Styne supplies the music, Bob Merrill the lyrics, and Gower Champion will direct. The team that put together Stop the World -I Want to Get Off, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, will be back with another marquee-macerating title, It's a Funny Old World We Live In, but the World's Not Entirely to Blame. Newley will play Everyman, as is his wont. Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death is a musical "of the street...
...model. It has gauzy, soft-focus photography and saccharin rhapsodies on the sound track. The writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe, etc., who now has apparently forsaken fake Fellini for pseudo Salinger. Give him one thing, though, he's the equal of Erich Segal - in art, if not in commerce...
...short-lived sitcom bearing his own name, made it obvious that he is, at best, a second banana. Knotts, the Milquetoast deputy sheriff on the old Andy Griffith Show, tried to make a virtue of his inability to sing, dance or string a show together. Opening night, Guest Anthony Newley pushed Knotts around and took command-a running gag that provoked a feeling of sympathy. But can other guests and the same gag make a season...
...fall in love like any other man?" croaks Cockney Anthony Newley. Down in front, wondering right along with the singer, is his most devoted fan. "I know every song by heart," says Charlotte Ford Niarchos. "I sometimes think I could get up on the stage and sing them myself. But not so well, of course." The divorced heiress followed Newley's stage show all the way to Toronto, indicating more than artistic admiration. Newley, who is in the midst of divorce proceedings, allowed gallantly: "The very fact that she is here is a most beautiful thing...
...HIERONYMOUS MERKIN Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? is a crack in the face at filmmakers "who have to have endings" or whom Newley thinks are not romantic enough. Naturally, its best success in making this point comes not from characterizations of producers, directors, and writers who make up the sub-plot of Merkin putting together his film, but from the contrast of these with the few good lyrical sequences (Such as Mercy baring her nipples and shivering...