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Newton or a Tom Jones is an almost certain sellout. One of the oddest spectacles in America, in fact, has to be a Tom Jones audience, in which a couple of dozen women, usually attractive and well dressed, throw their panties onto the stage and compete for what appears to be a deep kiss from the male master of the bump and grind. Yet even in Atlantic City only four casinos regularly count on stars to help fill the gaming rooms. Like their counterparts in Vegas, the other five produce their own revues...
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED PBS, beginning Jan. 18, 8 p.m., E.S.T. It is an odd book by one of the century's oddest writers, and even he had serious reservations about it. "I reread Brideshead and was appalled," he wrote Graham Greene in 1950, five years after publication. But Brideshead Revisited, overwritten and underplotted, is and probably will remain Evelyn Waugh's best-known and most popular novel, a lush, sentimental tribute to Catholicism and to the period between the wars that Waugh regarded as the last gorgeous days of the British aristocracy. Now, in this lavish and beautiful eleven...
English is a language in which an army can be "decimated," but not "duomated," "triomated," "quatromated," or oddest of all, "pentamated...
...even when she was busy with Fisher she was seeking other trophies, according to Kelley's complete but rather mean-spirited account (Simon & Schuster; $14.95). Perhaps the oddest head on Taylor's wall is that of Columnist Max Lerner. A professor of American civilization at Brandeis University and the distinguished author of numerous heavy tomes, Lerner was 57 when they began their romance. He was clearly nattered out of his Ph.D.s by finding that he was attractive to a creature like Taylor-"She said I was her intellectual Mike Todd," he brags to Kelley-and the most amusing...
...achievement seem both ineffable and inevitable. Even today, at 82, Astaire is lithe and healthy as he waltzes through the occasional film role. In his latest, Ghost Story, due out next month, Astaire and three other elderly gents (Melvyn Douglas, John Houseman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) swap spooky tales. The oddest might be the one about Fred's rise to stardom. Fifty years ago, it was difficult to spot a potential movie star in a body that photographed small, frail, bewildered. Fred and his sister Adele had danced through hit Broadway shows for a dozen years before Adele...