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Richard Lester is everybody's favorite director. For those to whom movies are "cinema" he provides endless hours of coffee chitchat about stills, shots, frames, ad infinitum. For the rest, he provides terribly bright, fresh, and--guess what--funny comedies. He helped make the Beatles more than teenage idols, Rita Tushingham a comedienne with the word "rape," and English films the prime examples of that ye-ye renaissance. When he turned his hand to filming a Broadway musical that smacked of burlesque that chitchat became more intense than ever. Now it appears he can do no wrong. A funny thing...
...Time for Gazing. High flyers in the Continental set are also becoming addicted to the stars. A favorite society astrologer is lissome "Cappy" Badrutt, the California-born wife of the proprietor of the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, who has done horoscopes for Rita Hayworth, Paris Vogue Editor-in-Chief François de Langlade, the Aga Khan, Mrs. Herbert von Karajan, and Baroness Thyssen. Cappy says that a growing number of businessmen are also interested in the practice, because "in these times of uncertainty, people are groping for an answer...
Wednesday, December 14 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Visiting Acapulco during Mexico's film festival, Bob runs into a star shower that includes Michael Caine, Cantinflas, Dolores Del Rio, Glenn Ford, Gina Lollobrigida, Lynn Redgrave, James Mason and Rita Tushingham. ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Arthur Kennedy narrates "The Brave Rifles," a documentary celebrating the 22nd anniversary of World War II's harrowing Battle of the Bulge...
...principally responsible for what happened is Director Terence Young, who in Dr. No struck the first big Bondanza and that what happened is performed by an awful lot of people who ought to know better: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, Trini Lopez E. G. Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni Anthony Quayle, Gilbert Roland, Omai Sharif, Barry Sullivan, Nadja Tiller Eli Wallach...
...occasion seemed to be all Tanya's when what to the wandering eye should appear but an ex-stripper named Rita Renoir in an openwork crocheted gown under which she wore only a nostalgic G string. Worse yet, Princess Virginie-CarolineThérèse-Pancracie-Galdine von Furstenburg, known to her friends as Ira, was in Venice in her new guise as actress. That threw Tanya into a snit. Ira, she complained, was "taking work away from girls who need it." Tanya finally called a press conference to explain everything, but she called it for the same hour...