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...enlisting Wagner to carry the standards of Rockefeller and Rose. Wagner says that he bumped into Rocky three weeks ago at the première of the movie Lost Horizon (also, appropriately, a remake), and from their conversation emerged the vision of Wagner's recapturing his own Shangri-La as mayor. As Wagner tells it: "He said he thought it would be a great thing if I ran. And he added: 'Gee, we fought, but at least you kept your word.' " Liberal Rose, who figured that Wagner was the man most likely to stop Biaggi or Marchi...
There is smog in Shangri-La. Stashed on the shelf of the monastery library-that repository of wisdom and enlightenment for a weary world-is a Reader's Digest Condensed Book...
...hard to pinpoint where Bette is at her best. Her "Lullaby of Broadway/Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" medley, choreographed with her bumping and grinding Harlettes, opened the second act with overpowering excitement, and her version of "Leader of the Pack," acted out to poignant Shangri-La-type humming, captivated the mob. Bette Midler is equally at home with more sensitive and lyrical songs. Her version of "Delta Dawn" and her breathy "Am I Blue" left the audience breathless...
...role was one of the choicest movie plums in years: Catherine, the beguiling Shangri-La schoolmistress in the musical remake of Lost Horizon. The actress had to combine a peasant beauty with innate grace, be sweet yet sexy, and convey enough emotional depth to make Peter Finch-or any other man-willing to trudge over a snow-blown Himalaya for her. Audrey Hepburn was the sort of woman the part called for, and in fact Audrey was one of the prime prospects. But the part went to Liv Ullmann...
Died. Charles Suydam Cutting, 83, naturalist and explorer, who in 1935 led an expedition to Tibet's remote, Shangri-La city of Lhasa; of a cerebral hemorrhage; on Chappaquiddick Island, Mass. In 1925, Cutting set out for Central Asia on the first of many expeditions in search of rare animal species. A decade later he made the most famous of all his journeys when, after five years of plying the Dalai Lama with gifts, he was invited to visit and crossed the Himalayas to the nearly inaccessible 7th century city of Lhasa...