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Frenetic & Familiar. Susskind's frenetic pursuit of both the television dollar and television quality has left many a competitor gasping in his wake. "Oh, I like David all right," says a Broadway pal, "but he's a Harvard version of What Makes Sammy Run?." The observation is unfair. Dave Susskind (5 ft. 9 in. by his own measurement) may not only be taller than Sammy, but he dresses more stylishly and talks in round, mellifluous tones. The observation is also chronologically inaccurate. David was running fast before he joined the Ivy League-fast enough to have married pretty...
Look After Lulu (adapted by Noel Coward from Georges Feydeau's Occupe toi d'Amélie) is a game of musical chairs played with beds. Philippe (George Baker), who must leave Paris on regimental maneuvers, asks his pal Marcel (Roddy McDowall) to look after his mistress Lulu ("Take her to the zoo"). But before Lulu (Tammy Grimes) can say "zoo, la la," she wakes up in bed with her chaperon. She promptly dives under it to make room for Marcel's own mistress, a mock-seductive duchess (Polly Rowles) with the voice and manner...
...fail him even when Allan had him measuring yard-goods in the store, when he "ran away to sea," served as a private, and it survived the debacle at West Point. "Lion ambition is chained down," he wrote in his Tamerlane, which was run off by a printer pal while Poe was doing duty in the quartermaster's office in Boston...
However ignominious was former Premier Nikolai Bulganin's performance in publicly confessing error at last month's Central Committee meeting in Moscow, it was not groveling enough to satisfy his sometime globetrotting pal, Nikita Khrushchev. Unprecedentedly, Moscow last week published a stenographic report of the December session at which Bulganin demeaned himself...
...Producer Pal can congratulate himself for having succeeded where Walt Disney often fails: he has managed to play down to his audience and still play up to a standard...