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...joined to gether but to be rent asunder. "We must love one another or die," wrote W. H. Auden. Fire! proclaims that love is dead, God is dead, and man is dying. The playwright is a onetime actor now living in Europe who has adopted the pseudonym John Roc; he is a demi-Beckett who does not await Godot but screams at the heavens precisely be cause they are empty. He is sometimes pretentious, often confusing, and lavish with lavender words, but his drama rips into an audience with volcanic force...
Similarly, about a year ago, Johnny abruptly canned his manager of eight years, Al Bruno. The story is that the intricate sound and tape effects that go with Carson's cabaret act got snarled by a technician three shows running during an engagement at Miami's Eden Roc. Johnny called up New York, says a friend, actually sobbing. "They didn't laugh," he said. Carson blamed Bruno and bought out his contract...
...Beach's top architect, Morris Lapidus, from whose drawing board have sprung such pacesetting superhotels as the $40 million Fontainebleau, the $20 million Americana (in nearby Bal Harbour) and the $12 million Eden Roc, has the same idea. He explains: "I'm not designing hotels. I'm designing stage settings on which people will play out their two-week vacations...
...pipes and valves from which issue alarming gurgles and lukewarm, pale-beige water. The main attraction of the house is its distance from the crowded resorts at Cannes and Juan-les-Pins and its proximity to the swimming, sunning and water skiing at the Riviera's chic Eden Roc beach...
...building is tucked in neatly on a 100-ft. by 320-ft. corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street, has 800 rooms, 21 stories, and looks compact enough to be stored in the Waldorf lobby. It is the handiwork of Architect Morris Lapidus, whose chief triumphs are the Eden Roc and Fontainebleau hotels in Miami Beach. Thus the décor can be described as something between Bronx baroque and Mexicali modrun. A graceful, serpentine curve of the long exterior wall on 51st Street is a welcome change from Manhattan's orange-crate rectangularity, but the sea-green color...