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...good nature, groaning "Oh no, not again!" at his every line. Julie Andrews stoically survives the pangs of sexual frustration, the pain of childbirth, and the ravages of time, until the make-up department decides she can't take any more, at which point she is allowed to die offscreen...
...Offscreen, Heston is president of the Screen Actors Guild and a frequent industry spokesman. He has made four tours from Nigeria to Australia for the State Department. Last week he spent two days in Washington testifying before a Senate subcommittee on community-antenna television. As early as 1961, when most of his colleagues were ignoring the Negro revolution, Heston joined a civil rights demonstration in Oklahoma City. In 1963 he publicly attacked Hollywood's "sorry record" of discrimination...
...Funny Thing's" funniest things happened when Paar kept himself offscreen. Elliott Reid did an inventive impression of an entire convention, including chairman, delegates, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and the BBC. An old newsreel showed Bess Truman hopelessly trying to christen an airplane-bopping the nose a dozen times until a technician took pity on her and hammered the bottle apart. And in a technically adroit sequence, famous faces were shown orating silently as the sound track played Tony Bennett's rendition of If I Ruled the World. It began with Johnson, moved to Goldwater, then to such...
Promise Her Anything. Shortly after splashing headlines last year as offscreen lovers in an unsavory divorce action, Leslie Caron and Warren Beatty pooled their talents in a sex farce. Surprisingly enough, it is an amiable, entertaining fiction and nowhere near so scandalous as life itself. As a young French widow with an infant son, Leslie oozes gamine charm in the direction of her boss, Robert Cummings, a child psychiatrist who sucks his thumb under stress. Beatty, in his first light comedy role, shows an unexpected flair for foolishness as Leslie's Greenwich Village neighbor, baby sitter and maker...
...feel, now that his bride of three months, sometime Actress Dyan Cannon, 27, is expecting a baby next May? "Ecstatic," beamed Cary, for whom it will be the first child in his four marriages. Later he explained that the way for a man to keep "pretty fit" offscreen is to "relax and lead a good, robust sex life...