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...obviously in merry contempt of all that is sacred. The ensuing titles compete hopelessly with a series of TV commercials, totally irrelevant, but so distractingly zany that nobody will pay the least attention to the screen credits. Success roars onward, steadily more outrageous, shamelessly promoting forthcoming Fox movies (Peyton Place, Kiss Them for Me) and donating scads of free ad space to Trans World Airlines. This seems very obnoxious until it grows clear that Tashlin is shrewdly snickering at TV's own annoying tradition of the gratuitous plug ("Yessiree, made it to this here studio on time again today...
Only in the broad jump among the field events, does Princeton pose a serious threat, with three 21 foot-plus jumpers in Murray Peyton, Ray Empson, and Dave Smith. Henry Wente and Dave Gately will have to do much better than their weak showings of last Saturday...
Massachusetts High School Teacher George Metalious, husband of No. 1 best-selling Novelist Grace (Peyton Place) Metalious, 32, father of her three children, told newshounds that he and Grace have split. He was mum on his reasons. though Grace had once explained that while she was grinding out her libido-loaded book George "cooked, fed the kids, ran the school and never once objected." Their impending divorce was perhaps based on the same grounds that inspired Grace to dedicate her novel obliquely: "To George-For All the Reasons He Knows So Well...
...Manhattan sightseer, New Hampshire's earthy Novelist Grace Metalious, 32, whose sex-gorged Peyton Place (TIME, Sept. 24) has stood No. 1 on the nation's bestseller lists for almost two months, counterattacked censors and all who would ban her barnyard portrayal of a rampageous U.S. hamlet. Cried plumpish Authoress Metalious, mother of three: "I know about small towns. A rock in a field may look firm, but kick it over and you'll find all kinds of things crawling underneath. Too much sex? How can you write a novel about normal men and women, let alone...
...wonder. Every character in Peyton Place, from the gallused bench-sitters on Elm Street to the assured local mill owner, has a lurid history that John O'Hara's characters might envy. Novelist Metalious suggests that sex is never long out of the town's mind; anyway, it seldom is out of hers. Her hero (strangely enough a schoolteacher with a Greek name) courts the local widow with such niceties as "a stunning blow across the mouth with the back of his hand." And her love scenes are as explicit as love scenes can get without...