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...water before a crowd of 600 first-nighters. It was all part of the premiere puffery for The Ritz, the new movie based on Terrence McNally's Broadway comedy, which opened last week in New York. The film, set in a gay hotel-bathhouse, stars Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller and Rita Moreno, who created the party's splashiest scene when she hopped onto an island pedestal in the pool. "The photographers were just dying for me to fall in the water, but for that I get paid lots and lots of money," joked Moreno afterward. If she escaped...
Frantic and Languid. Armah's fiction is stiller and clearer. His second novel, Fragments, is set at a lower voltage than The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, his first novel about the failure of revolution to inspirit his fellow Ghanaians. But contempt for his countrymen still seethes, this time because they are corruptly devoted to cars, tape recorders and neon "WELLCOME" signs at airports. Baako, his fragile hero, cannot adjust to such trinket worship. His sister's premature baby dies when the family too quickly presents it at an outdoor festival because they are anxious...
Wednesday, August 20 KRAFT MUSIC HALL FROM HAWAII (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Host Don Ho hums along with Guests Bobby Goldsboro and the comedy team of Stiller and Meara...
...STEVE ALLEN COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a spooky spoof, Allen & Co. suggest that movie musicals be based on oldtime horror films. Tim Conway, Lou Rawls, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara help Steve with the ghost songs...
...masterpieces and started writing trash. Moreover, your review is strongly reminiscent of the derisive criticism that has greeted every major composer. One is reminded of Mozart's clarinet concerto ("Unfit for ladies' ears") and Beethoven's seventh symphony ("The death agonies of an eviscerated serpent"). ANDREW STILLER Madison...