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Salt Mines & Big Brother. For the adventurous tourist with more time and money, there are now 100 open cities to choose from. Easily reached by plane from Moscow are the workers' Black Sea health resorts of Odessa, Yalta and Sochi, with their pebbled beaches, plump bikinied women and soft Mediterranean climate. Five hours by plane from Moscow are the ancient Asian cities of Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, with beautiful mosques and colorful bazaars. Northeast of them lies AlmaAta, a 20-year-old planned city that is the capital of Kazakhstan. The Siberian scientific center of Novosibirsk was opened...
...honor of such memorable performances, this year, for the first time, the American TV Commercials Festival is awarding a Clio, the industry's equivalent of an Oscar, to the best actor in a commercial. Among the nominees is plump Charlotte Rae, who does a devastating satire of a nightclub torch singer mugging her way through the new Alka-Seltzer anthem, I've Got the Blahs. Easy wit, in fact, is the Homelies' forte. One of the best comic commercials now running features Bill McCutcheon, an inconspicuous little chap with a Silly Putty face who gets carried away...
...captions ("Mon Dieu, you ugly man! Tell me why you are such a fool!"). In this film, she is introduced as the svelte blonde secretary of an oil magnate who maintains his executive offices in a private jetliner. "Your cigar, sir," murmurs Irma (Elke Sommer), as she extracts a plump Corona from her ruffled cigarter. The boss lights up, draws deep, looks faintly startled as the cigar explodes a .38 slug that rips through the back of his throat and severs his spine...
...miscast stars, but the gemütlich approach of Director Anatole Litvak. The slick editing and the bright, bold colors seem less to polish the picture than to varnish it, and they cannot cover the film's faults. The waifs of German-occupied Warsaw are too plump and well padded, the armies seem too clean and well mannered. And the officers are too self-consciously symbolic of Germany's decadence and decency, grossness and grace. Somewhere beneath it all is a plausible plot and a powerful picture gone wrong...
...close as most Americans will get to China this year. The photos, like China itself, seem timeless: men and women straining to haul boats upriver against a driving current, bent-backed peasants at labor in the fields, students planting trees, Mongolian horsemen racing across the steppe. And everywhere, plump wide-eyed children...