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...such movies go, Crossed Swords is somewhat above the norm. Adapted from Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, it recounts a highly satisfying story in an amiable fashion. Though Screenwriter George MacDonald Fraser has replaced many of the novel's jokes with vaguely risqué punch lines of his own, he has preserved the book's theme. By the time Prince Edward and London Slum Boy Tom Canty reclaim their rightful identities at the movie's end, the audience has been stirred by Twain's passionate devotion to democratic ideals...
Died. Arnold Gingrich, 72, longtime editor and publisher of Esquire magazine; of cancer; in Ridgewood, N.J. A former advertising copywriter, Gingrich became Esquire's founding editor in 1933 and developed the success formula for the nation's first modern "man's magazine": slightly risqué cartoons, articles about sports and politics and polished short stories by such topflight authors as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Gingrich resigned in 1945. Returning to a floundering magazine in 1952 as its publisher, he hired some freewheeling young editors and gave the magazine its characteristic bold, jaunty tone...
...times the displays get risqué. Example: a series of windows at Los Angeles' May Co. department stores designed by Artist Peter Shyne, supposedly to "illustrate the possibilities of a California vacation." One window showed a beach scene in which a mannequin looking like Telly Savalas triumphantly brandished a bikini top belonging to a female mannequin who had her back discreetly turned. Another window showed a man dressed only in brief shorts at a sink and a woman in panties and bra. The implication was that they had just climbed out of bed and were packing for an illicit...
...creature of the Tube," said Carol Burnett, 38, arriving in New York to collect her award from the Friars Club as Entertainer of the Year. Weren't her naughty-lady movie takeoffs risqué? "Not compared with those dirty soap operas. We're G-rated compared to daytime TV." Does she have a second career in mind? "I should say a stunt woman in stag movies. But I'd really like to be a schoolteacher for kids, six to eight. They haven't heard all my jokes...
...those have come from over the border from the U.S. Canadian law prohibits obscenity on TV, but fails to define it, and Canadian officials, like the viewers, seem unconcerned by the Toronto movies. Station officials, meantime, are happy with their soaring revenues-but a little uncomfortable with their risqué image. "As soon as people regard this as the porn station," claims Znaimer, "then I'll cancel the blue movie...