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...Rat Watcher. Son of a Virginia real estate man, Warren Beatty (pronounced baity) was born in Richmond and raised in Arlington, where he was the president of his high school class ("I was a cheerful hypocrite") and center on the football team. Ten colleges offered him football scholarships, but he rejected them all, happy to give up the game. "I hated every minute of it," he remembers, "worrying all the time that I might get my nose splashed over my face, or my teeth kicked in." During high school days, he got his first, unpromising brush with the acting profession...
...Sinatra and his self-conscious Clansmen were frolicking" in Europe, their onetime matriarch, Lauren Bacall, 36, pulled the imprimatur right out from under them back in Hollywood. "As far as I'm concerned," pronounced the bodkin-tongued widow of the clique's founding father, Humphrey Bogart, "the Rat Pack automatically dissolved in 1956 [when Bogart was fatally ill]. I don't recognize the present group at all; I think their pleasures are rather simple-simple-minded." Was there space for her new spouse, Jason Robards Jr., on Bogie's pedestal? "I'm not saying this...
...kinds of fun: a hilarious switch on the man-walks-dog routine, a kindergarten course in the divergence of species, and possibly even a sly political charade with special interest for those nations that are tied to a bear. When the pup leaps off in pursuit of a wood rat, the cub just sits there on his little bear behind and wonders vaguely what all the barking is about, so the rat gets away and the pup goes hungry. The bear on the other hand finds plenty to eat -berry bushes and beehives can't run away. And while...
...Young Savages. The plot, involving Burt Lancaster as an assistant D.A. assigned to prosecute teen-age gangsters, is straight out of Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the camerawork in Manhattan's rat-run slums is cruelly authentic...
...Stockings at San Diego, leggy (39 in. from hipbone to toe) Juliet Prowse, 24, obliquely discussed her durable relationship with Frank Sinatra. Although allowing that he might consider her "dingaling" and perhaps had "flipped," the sinuous dancer was hardly ready to spill the banns. In the argot of the Rat Pack, explained she, "flip" means "to like someone an awful lot but not necessarily to fall in love. It's more like an urge...