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...expands the permutations by sleeping with Georgene Thorne, Bea Guerin, Carol Constantine and especially Foxy Whitman. The sexual scenes, and the language that accompanies them, are remarkably explicit, even for this new age of total freedom of expression. Some critics have dismissed Couples as an upper-middle-class Peyton Place. It isn't, but it is getting a sensational reception all the same. Only three weeks after publication, the novel is on the bestseller lists. Knopf ordered a huge first printing of 70,000 copies, and Hollywood's Wolper Productions paid $500,000 for the movie rights...
...show like Peyton Place, ABC's twice-weekly soap opera, there's no future for a female character after she's finally married the father of her child. That unlucky event came to pass recently for Dorothy Malone, the show's sob-racked mother figure ever since it opened 3½ years ago-and she has been written out of the action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush...
...RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE, Grace Metalious...
...PEYTON PLACE, Grace Metalious...
...Sunnybrook Farm, which so far has sold 1.4 million copies, nearly all of them in hard cover (it is still in print). Forever Amber has sold 1,652,837 hard-cover copies since it was published in 1944. Such once eminently respectable figures are dwarfed by the paperback trade. Peyton Place has sold only 600,000 copies in hard cover since 1956, but paperback sales added 9,300,000 more...