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...evening are Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman. Fighting hotel-room eviction by wearing nothing but a towel (they can't throw her out nude), Comedienne Newman has one of the two numbers that threaten to wake up the show, I Was a Shoo-in, a hilariously mimed saga of how she missed being Miss America. Comic Bean, a twitchy bundle of broken watchsprings, has the other: he begs her to seduce him by putting on some clothes...
...HUSTLER. Director Robert Rossen, in a formidable, expert and exciting commercial movie, promulgates a slangy, sexy saga of the pool halls, a remodeled myth in which the old king of the cuestick (Jackie Gleason) yields his laurels to the new (Paul Newman), but only after an enormously exciting trial by combat...
...sailed on her last cruise. But the full story of Julian Harvey and what happened aboard the Bluebelle on its last night at sea will probably never be known. And, but for the miraculous rescue of a little girl, it would probably never have been even a half-told saga...
James and William Goldman) shoots its best line in the title. In three acts, this small-bore saga of the peacetime army in the mid-'50s rarely hits a comic target that has not already been riddled in the long and simple-minded annals of G.I. humor...
...fiction have been as unlucky in love as John Blaydon. In two previously published books (Through Streets Broad and Narrow, In the Time of Greenbloom) chronicling various periods of John's life, he has consistently lost the girls he loves. In this third volume of the Blaydon family saga, John is beat out again, and this time by his dashing older brother, David. When Giselle, who is French and flighty, seems ready to return to his arms from her fling with Big Brother, John tells her pettishly: "I hate eating from dirty plates." Giselle responds: "You insulting little English...