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...Engineer. "That," says Noel Harrison, 31, "would be ludicrous." Indeed it would. The only son of Rex Harrison and Marjorie Noel Thomas, Rex's first wife, Noel has a pleasant voice as well as a stylish way with a song-and when he got hugged by Friend Sybil Burton on opening night, he flashed a grin that was curiously evocative of his father's. And the critics agree that Noel may well go as far as Rex. Anyway, he sings a lot better...
SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A tour of New York's discotheques, conducted by Dancemaster "Killer Joe" Piro and Aficionacla Sybil Burton...
...know. A lithe, electric homunculus, he is Diskville's No. 1 dancing master, a hierophant of the subtle shades of difference between the Chicken and the Bird, the Surf and the Fish and the Swim, who has welcomed many a Big Name (Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, Hoofer Ray Bolger, Sybil Burton) to his unpretentious walk-up studio in Manhattan and makes about 30 trips a year to cities around the country to show dancing teachers how it's done...
...Barbary Light, his hero is a rogue who has all the equipment needed to be a killer except the killer's instinct - in fact, Owen suffers from immoral flabbiness. Newby, moreover, is one of the few male writers able to get convincingly inside a woman's character. Sybil seems so stolid and pragmatic on the surface but secretly lives an exciting life of the imagination with her rakish, long-dead first husband. Flighty Alex is another flawed rogue, who would like to be a bitch except that she hates hurting people. What makes Newby a rare author...
...novel embodies Newby's view that most men create their own "heaven" or "hell" here on earth. It also toys with the Shavian paradox that a terrestrial hell can be far more habitable than a terrestrial heaven. Not least among the compensations, Owen reflects after telling all to Sybil, is that "they were talking about something real for once...