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...plot collapses around Shirley MacLaine, cast as a girl reporter who infiltrates the seraglio of King Fawz (Peter Ustinov) looking for a lewd scoop and discovers the missing Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) instead. One night, summoned to Fawz for fondling, Shirley rubs down with garlic, dons a fright wig, blacks out her teeth, stuffs upholstery under her skirts and bounces onto the sheik's bed screeching: "Come on, honey, ain't you gonna sing me a dirty song?" He doesn't, but if he did, it would be one of the movie's lesser offenses against taste...
Coates agreed to the deal, but the only reward he got was a big scoop in the Times. The holdup victim, Armored Transport, Inc., was "not about to give any additional money to a man who may have already beat them out of $40,000," says Coates. But a good reporter is not easily put off a juicy crime story. Last week Coates was doggedly tracking down a lead to Ruiz' brother Henry, an alleged member of the holdup gang. He has high hopes of engineering still one more sentimental surrender...
...shed on the lefthand side of the fairway. Then try the Upside Down Shot, by reversing a No. 7 iron and swinging lefthanded. Then there is the Hanging Lie for those happy times when the ball nestles on the far lip of a trap; back to the pin, you scoop up the ball with a wedge, and flip it over your head onto the green. After that there's the Kneeling Shot. "For any distance from 180 yds. to 230 yds.," writes Hahn, "this shot is amazingly simple. On two occasions I have rimmed the cup from...
...dozens of film fan magazines that exist solely because there are film fans. Alongside that revelation, Movie Mirror ran a smiling cover portrait of Jack Kennedy's widow, together with her two children. Readers who bothered to turn to page 16 were rewarded with the full scoop on Jackie's new romance: "She is in love with life . . . with people . . . with her new surroundings...
...pilot who bungles a CIA mission over the U.S.S.R. and bails out in the kingdom ruled by Fawz (Peter Ustinov), a peeved potentate whose son failed to make the Notre Dame varsity. Shirley MacLaine just happens to be at hand as a reporter getting a picture-magazine scoop inside the seraglio. The vengeful Fawz fields a football team of his own and blackmails Goldfarb into coaching it. An eager U.S. State Department sends the Irish to the Middle East, where they are wined, dined, wiggled at, and ultimately defeated (34-29) by the burnoosed bandits of Fawz...