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...dull bunch of character actors takes the edge off the comedy, and Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon don't work nearly so well together as in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie. By chance this assertion can be tested since The Fortune Cookie is on re-release at the Orpheum. It, rather than The Odd Couple or The Producers, is the legitimate '60's heir to the best tradition of Hollywood comedies...
...extended description of a bittersweet life-style gone slightly out of hand. The Sweet Ride tries to beat the trappings of its own genre by being a little better. It is, and its inevitable disappearance on Wednesday should not go entirely unnoticed, nor should we necessarily ignore the Orpheum's next seven-day double-bill. Note that the B picture is not dead, that genre melodrama is still capable of quiet surprise or some intelligence, that small cinematic pleasures often lie where we least suspect them, then that it's good to take chances trying to find them...
More Louis than Loew. The theater, formerly part of the Orpheum chain, had fallen on evil days. Its gaudy decor, a melange of rococo cupids, art nouveau statuary and Buddhist-Byzantine shrines, was shrouded in brownish dust. Decorator Clark Graves painted over most of the Byzantine and the Loew camp, highlighting those motifs which Louis XIV might have allowed in Versailles...
Blown Fuses. It is only three years since the Viet Nam circuit became the Orpheum of the Orient for adventurous performers. Most of the bookings are handled by Agent Joe Tomasi, now 28, who brought his first touring variety show into Saigon in the spring of 1964, and a year later formed the World Wide Talent agency with retired U.S. Chief Petty Officer George Albrecht. "The Vietnamese acts were terrible," Tomasi recalls, and he began flying out regularly to Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo to fetch in outside talent. Today, W.W.T. handles about half of the paid professional entertainment appearing...
...very tantalizing depths in a movie which is as good as a movie about a car can be; at the Astor (LI 2-5030), EI Cidstars(unbeknownst to itself: it has pretensions to being as good as a movie about EI Cid could be) magnificent Spanish scenery; at the Orpheum (LI 2-3491), Sergeants 3 is as good as routine tastelessness and flatness always is (good like soma), despite the most violent exertions of the Clan to make something more of it; and, at Keith's Memorial,Rock Hudson and Doris Day, in Lover Come Back are not as good...