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...about filmland's Gomorrah atmosphere, its chronic fearfulness. its tendency "to run with the tide." he sits in self-imposed isolation at one end of the long table in Columbia's executive dining room and baits the mighty. At a recent lunch, he noted in a loud, salad-wilting voice that Eddie Fisher would be producing Elizabeth Taylor's next picture for Columbia. Studio Boss Sam Briskin. according to Susskind. spoke up from 20 feet away to defend the arrangement and asked what Susskind thought of it. "It's maniacal." said Susskind smoothly. "The next picture...
...play and tilt it like a kaleidoscope until the characters tumble into new and exciting shapes. Ontario will lead off its season this week with a Byzantine-styled King John, followed by Romeo and Juliet with Julie Harris, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. ¶ Stratford, Conn, is salad-green in years (1955), in its bucolic setting along the sleepy Housatonic River, and in the juvenile cuteness of most of its productions. The 200,000 ticket-queuers anticipated this season must expect only Jello-weight Shakespeare inside the handsome teakwood playhouse emblazoned with British heraldry and flying pennants. This...
...Salad Days. In Los Angeles, Actress Estelita Rodriguez won a divorce from Alfonso Halfss when she testified that he was so stingy that he refused to let her buy cold cream, forced her to use olive oil on her face...
Bordello Opulence. Behind Lapidus' philosophy rests a firm conviction that architecture's age of simplicity is doomed. His hotels are a tossed salad of riotously flamboyant styles that range from borscht-belt baroque to Coney Island modern. With exaggeration that verges on caricature, he splashes his hotels with colorful bordello opulence that offends traditionalists, flabbergasts sophisticates and often delights the uninitiated. Lapidus takes pride in the fact that he gives people "something to gape at.'' In fact, he calls his arced, 565-room Fontainebleau a "tasteful three-ring circus." But the star turn among his hotels...
Adams crusaded against illegible house numbers, hatcheck girls, paper towels, his wife's salad dressing, and dry-sweeping with a broom (he felt that the dust raised was dangerously germy). "Whom are you?" demanded "The Conning Tower" testily of any author caught misusing the pronoun...