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...challenge, especially since 1 have green eyes," observed Actor Peter Ustinov. "I have to be careful not to open them too much." Ustinov's ocular difficulties are caused by his role as Hnup Wan, a bungling Chinese spy in the Walt Disney spoof One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, which he is filming in London with Co-Star Helen Hayes. Ustinov's skill in portraying his character has proved especially unnerving for his wife Helene, who visited the set during the first day of shooting. "She seemed extremely upset when she realized who I was," says Ustinov...
...friendly coverage when he joined the Detroit News's Washington staff in 1957 and became bureau chief four years later. The friendship is good-humored. TerHorst helps write some of the better ditties crooned at Washington's annual Gridiron Club dinner, and one recent effort included this spoof of Gerald Ford's close ties to business, sung to the tune of America the Beautiful: "Oh beautiful for Tel and Tel . . . for Pontiac and Cadillac, and good ole Jerry Ford." TerHorst had written two-thirds of an unofficial Ford biography when he was tapped...
...Long Goodbye is another Raymond Chandler-Philip Marlow thriller that was turned into a movie, this one starring Elliot Gould and Nina van Pallandt. The movie is a cross between a straight detective movie and a spoof on the genre, and suffers because of the confusion. When it was first released it flopped, only later to gain popularity as a parody. At times it's rather funny, and the story isn't all that bad. Gould is excellent and his car is magnificent. The film, directed by Robert Altman, comes to the Welles on Sunday...
...hitting the water. They fan out to the center of the pool and in a Busby Berkeley pinwheel formation circle the battered dinghy in which a wizened, whiskered Charon (Charles Levin) is poling across this Ivy League Styx. It is a moment of splashing good humor in this aquatic spoof of a spoof...
...press" (TIME, July 23). In clearing them, Judge Artur Lopes Cardoso urged Maria Velho da Costa, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Teresa Horta to continue writing "works of art." And last week, for the first time, Portuguese movie theaters were showing The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin's 1940 spoof on Nazism, and the 1925 Soviet silent-film classic Potemkin...