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...soliloquies are delivered as if Hamlet were in desperate need of geriatric drugs. Rabb is too monotonous for eloquence and too weary for anger. The rest of the cast is almost uniformly inept. Horatio is played like a lost Boy Scout, Gertrude as a matronly simp and Ophelia as an epileptic. Only Richard Easton's Claudius has the dignity of a solid stage presence, and Philip Minor's First Gravedigger has wry antic authority. In view of his acting and directing, perhaps Ellis Rabb should really be listed as the First Gravedigger...
...confessed that her go-go had gone years ago, but wondered if it was all right for her to watch anyway. And last week there was a letter from Cavett's idiot cousin Clarence. He is the simp who lost his job at the St. Louis Zoo after he decided to run the place on the honor system. Recently, reports Cavett, Clarence registered his own feeble protest to the Viet Nam war. He boiled his draft card...
...sole survivor of the Big Three. Living quietly in his Mexico City mansion with his wife Angelica, downing highballs of unproletarian Scotch (at $18 a fifth), Siqueiros has been turning out portraits at top prices, putting up new murals in hospitals, generally enjoying his reputation as a type muy simpático. But last week it was like old times again...
...expensive hooch ("We'd pay through the nose for this," he says) or displaying a sweaty torso effectively scarred by the CBS makeup department. He also lapsed into some totally unrelated pseudo-Hemingway moods with high-priced ($120 an hour) Fashion Model Suzy Parker, a sort of un-simpática Brett Ashley. (Suzy: Was it good today? Jack...
...more simpático of recent public figures in Argentina was Eva Perón's lively, silver miniature French poodle Negrita. Whether at work at the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, or at home to greet distinguished visitors, Negrita and Evita were almost inseparable. When Negrita died last August, Argentine representatives abroad were asked to find a replacement...