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...declares Melina Mercouri. "He knows how to cry." Says Angela Lansbury: "He has antennae most people haven't even heard of." Others are more to the point. "If I had an affair with Jack the Ripper," sighs Valley of the Dolls Novelist Jacqueline Susann, "the offspring would be Rex Reed...
...Rex Reed? Yes indeed. The young man who wrote all those scandalous things in Esquire, the New York Times and elsewhere about Ava Gardner, Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Sandy Dennis and Lester Maddox is the Now Kid, the jet set's latest instant celebrity -seen at the poshest places, invited to the nicest parties, cajoled by the sweetest people...
...Rex à la Mode. At 28, Reed is both the most entertaining new journalist in America since Tom Wolfe and the most unprincipled knave to turn name dropping and voyeurism into a joyous, journalistic living. His detractors appear to be in the minority, however, and to the 30,000 readers who have thus far bought his recent book, Do You Sleep in the Nude?, he is a fascinating gossip who has recast the interview format in his own bitchy image. Son of a Texas oil-company supervisor, Reed spent his formative years in the South traveling from oil boom...
...Rex Robbins plays the Emperor to the hilarious hilt; and he comes over somewhat too ludicrous and undignified for my taste, though this is certainly one way to play him. It is undeniable that everyone will be grossly entertained by the prodigious and protracted cat-and-mouse chase with which the Emperor and the Lion climax the second act. It is inventive, fast, furious, and so athletic that, at the opening performance, the Emperor's august knee not surprisingly got skinned and began to bleed. When at last the Emperor brags, "I have subdued the beast," the supine Lion himself...
...regular edition complete with Preface and Postscript and the Shaw Alphabet edition are both available in paperback, published by Penguin Books.)The inflated Roman Emperor (REX ROBBINS) who will eventually be deflated...