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...PERSUADERS (ABC). "I'm Brett to my friends, but you may call me darling." Lady Brett Ashley speaking? No, Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore, TV's engaging former Saint), who is the Oxbridge playboy half of The Persuaders. His co-persuader is Danny Wilde, a new-rich high roller from The Bronx (Tony Curtis), and the two of them womanize and swashbuckle around the Cote d'Azur "in the name of justice." For all their jet-set airs, their plebeian repartee and stupefying plots make Roger and Tony emerge more like Batman and Robin in ascots. Catch...
Feed Revel an opinion and he will answer it with an opinion. While putting down Russia, China, the Third World and, above all, France, Revel cannot for the life of him discover significant flaws in the U.S. He likes Andy Warhol movies. He loves Playboy ("One of the most progressive magazines in America"). He even recommends American TV (with all those channels "it is more like being turned loose in a library"). What's more, he sees them all as part of the revolution. Not only blacks, Jesus freaks and grape workers but near-Establishment liberals get abstracted into...
Married. Dick Martin, 49, har-de-har half of television's Rowan and Martin comedy team and Laugh-ln's slathering bachelor-in-residence; and Dolly Read, 24, English Playboy-Bunny-turned-actress; he for the second time, she for the first; in Honolulu...
When Hugh Hefner is the social draw in Hollywood, it is obvious that there have been great changes in lotus land. From his 30-room mansion, New Arrival Hefner stages Sunday barbecues replete with Playboy bunnies, while Hollywood oldtimers seem to be making do with hot dogs and sangria. Some of the established hostesses, Roz Russell, Denise Minnelli, Mrs. Gregory Peck, still stage conspicuously sumptuous affairs now and again. But in the new Hollywood such lavishness seems almost ostentatiously out of date...
...notion of the superior role of the vagina. Certainly women are entitled to any sort of orgasm they like. But girls who are now being enjoined to "Think clitoris!" are being sold a mechanistic view of sex that is almost as dehumanizing as the phallic consciousness of Playboy...