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...competing systems are France's SECAM (for Séquence de Couleurs avec Mémoire-color sequence with memory) and West Germany's PAL (for phase alternating line). They are, of course, incompatible...
...marrying Mia Farrow, 21, Maureen O'Suilivan's actress daughter. After keeping steady company with her for more than a year, Frankie took her home to mother and gave her a ding-a-ding ring, nine carats heavy and worth something like $100,000. Said Old Pal Joey Bishop: "It looked like Plymouth Rock had been lowered onto Columbus Circle...
...wrote Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko in Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing his nice, good, old pal John Steinbeck, whom he met during the author's 1963 visit to Russia. Evtushenko was scolding Steinbeck for not speaking out against the Vietnamese...
With Wife Dory, a former MGM lyricist, he is committed to write an 18-song musical score for Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a movie starring Richard Burton. And he will score two films, The Graduate and Catch-22, directed by his close pal Mike Nichols. Previn figures that he can do all this with half of one hand, while bearing down on stage, podium and recording studio. "Now, at least, I am responsible for my own mistakes," he says. "It's better than all those years when I was going from Lassie to Debbie Reynolds." Of course, between the dogs...
...wiggly-hipped 30-mile walker, and he passes the test as a farceur by keeping pace with Grant. Samantha nips through her first comedy role with such unexpected verve that she will probably be asked to impersonate plucky, romantic dream girls for years to come. Confronted by an office pal while a couple of drowsy strangers storm her bathroom one morning, she dryly quips: "The others don't get up until noon." Altogether, Don't Run is champion-class drollery-slight, stylish, graceful, and abrim with evidence that Hollywood's honorable high-comedy traditions are being well...