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Cooked Spaghetti. Cheerily resigned to her new home-away-from Home, The Arlene Francis Show, she staged a salute to woman suffrage, told fairy tales, dueted with Comedienne Elaine Stritch, interviewed General Carlos Romulo, chitchatted with Actor Cyril Ritchard, and delivered a spoof of Marlene Dietrich's seductive See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have. Only a fractured heel, which she got hopping over a low railing on Home, kept her from dancing. As always, Arlene's personal didos were gay, frolicsome and deceptively casual. "Sometimes," she explains, "the cozy, casual chums...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's hilarious spoof of Man hattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mans field as herself (TIME...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's hilarious spoof of Man- hattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mans field as herself (TIME...
From the moment it unveils its mock-hero, Rock Hunter (Tony Randall), ensconced side-screen as a one-man band in a spoof of the awe-struck music that always accompanies the searchlights introducing a Fox movie, Success is obviously in merry contempt of all that is sacred. The ensuing titles compete hopelessly with a series of TV commercials, totally irrelevant, but so distractingly zany that nobody will pay the least attention to the screen credits. Success roars onward, steadily more outrageous, shamelessly promoting forthcoming Fox movies (Peyton Place, Kiss Them for Me) and donating scads of free ad space...
...Business too often takes the attitude that the press must cooperate or be guilty of an antibusiness attitude," says the Chicago Sun-Times's deep-digging Financial Editor Austin Wehrwein, who frequently writes columns on the mythical Pfutzer Foundry & Finished Tool Co. (cable address: PFFT) that not only spoof business shenanigans and shibboleths, but satirize the brand of handout punditry that characterizes most business-page stories...