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...Pouf of Smoke. Normal dramatic tools like characterization and motivation are given short shrift on M:I Geller & Co. instead believe in fast plots, dazzling footwork, bizarre technical contrivances. It is always the "how" of a story that keeps viewers pinned to their TV sets, since nearly everything else on the program is deliberately made familiar. At the opening, Peter Graves, 41, as Impossible Mission Leader Jim Phelps, enters a phone booth, warehouse or parked car, finds a hidden tape recorder, and turns it on. "Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that...
They perk. Take the opera: usually, three evenings are required for the performance of one work; Dr. Ox sprays the hall with his secret ingredient, and pouf! The joint goes wild. Frenzied musicians bust their instruments, and the audience whips into a wild free-for-all. In the gardens, shrubs become trees, cabbages become bushes, mushrooms become umbrellas. Kids take to throw ing things at the teachers, townspeople eat and drink as never before, a couple gets married after only two months of courtship, two people fight a duel...
...Five-Day Lover (Kingsley International), for about an hour and a half, is the year's funniest movie, a pouf of glittering froth from France. And then, as though the camera were slowly drawing back, the context of the comedy widens and the laughter dies in the spectator's belly as he perceives that the froth is bubbling from the lips of a corpse, from the sores of a rotting civilization. The effect is disturbing and profound. In his third feature film Director Philippe de Broca (The Love Game, The Joker) emerges as a narrow but brilliant comic...
...greater fortune. She and Bugsy once tried to peddle an explosive, which "had almost the same power that the atom bomb had," to tbe Italian government. Like most of the countess' get-richer-quick schemes, Bugsy's bomb, "when the test came . . . merely went off 'pouf.' " At one of Dorothy's Hollywood parties, Elsa and Dorothy hung a Dictaphone near Actor John Barrymore when he was upbraiding his protégée, Elaine Barrie. The playback proved "more censorable than any sequence from a Jane Russell or Anna Magnani movie." The only time Elsa...
This is the most fabulous place in the world," sighed Marlene Dietrich. " Any where else-pouf, I would not .go. But this is different. Las Vegas is the only gay place left in the world. This is how Paris used to be before the war." Marlene, 48, was preparing for a three-week engagement at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas next month, for the record-breaking stipend of $90,000. Her opening night has been set for Dec. 15, an arrangement that thriftily divides her paydays into two tax years...