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...family-style adventure story in which she plays an eccentric lady junk dealer, the film has her working with Movie Novices Kevin Mc-Kenzie and Dennis Dimster, both eleven, an English sheep dog named Obie and a 70-ft. gas-filled balloon. Miffed by the idea of a male stand-in for the action scenes, she has also been doing her own acrobatics, which have included dangling 100 ft. above ground from the balloon's anchor. In between scenes, she has even found time to pose for a cast picture by an old friend: Susie Tracy, 44, daughter...
...film: a 1920s tango. At the same time in New York, fellow Kirov Defector Mikhail Baryshnikov has tried a few lines of his own in The Turning Point, a ballet movie featuring Misha, 28, and Leslie Browne, 19, as a pair of dancer-lovers. For Browne, a last-minute stand-in for ailing Gelsey Kirkland, the movies are a grand jeté from obscurity in the corps of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet. To ease her jitters, Partner Baryshnikov has played the cheerful clown, and even nibbled at her ears backstage. "I was terrified at first...
...back lot and, considering that his innards are almost as complex as those of a Polaris missile, the king showed surprisingly few kinks. (The ape whose death was staged last June at Manhattan's World Trade Center for the film's final scene was a Styrofoam stand...
...teenage daughter Perdita. And, following a 19th-century precedent, Kahn has once again entrusted both roles to Maria Tucci, since the two characters are on stage together only in the final scene. Kahn gets around this problem by cutting Perdita's half dozen lines and using a stand-in facing away from the audience. I suppose it's ungallant to suggest that Miss Tucci can no longer really pass for a teenager, but she makes an appealing attempt. As Queen Hermione, she can speak eloquently when required to, and stand immobile for several minutes without blinking an eye when called...
...into Carter's moderate and conservative support, which would benefit Udall. To further cloud the primary, there are four other favorite-son slates running in selected congressional districts and a statewide uncommitted slate headed by Favorite Daughter Gertrude Donahey, the state treasurer. The popular Donahey is a stand-in for Senator John Glenn, who backed away from running as a favorite son when he was named the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention...