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...Love My Wife, directed by Gene Saks with the unerring control of a lion tamer of farce, is dotted with paralyzingly funny sight gags. One is provided by Lenny Baker, an immensely gifted clown, as he divests himself of each article of clothing, except his shorts (no one strips to the buff), with the chloroformed zeal of an inhibited zombie. Another is the foursome in bed poring over a sex manual as if it were the Das Kapital of the erotic revolution and deciding who is to be A, B, C and D in a horizontal power play...
British Beginnings. This sort of generational drama, though in tamer form, has long been a staple of British television in series like The Forsyte Saga and, more recently, The Pallisers. The latter, based on the novels of Anthony Trollope and starring Emmy Winner Susan Hampshire, will begin on PBS stations in the U.S. this month. The big three American networks did not show much interest in this approach until last February, when ABC gambled $5.5 million on a twelve-part adaptation of Irwin Shaw's Rich Man, Poor Man. Shaw's saga of self-made Millionaire Rudy Jordache...
...INTERVIEW begins rather inauspiciously, with Orr asking in the stiffest of BBC manners, "Sylvia"--pause--"what started you writing poetry?" But Plath soon takes control of the situation, her conversational voice a little tamer than her reading voice but her imperious, arrogant manner just as fascinating and repellent. She sounds much older than 30 somehow, as if she had reached the last of the nine lives she endows herself with in "Lady Lazarus...
Upon reading The Great Victorian Collection, Graham Greene praised the author as "my favorite living novelist, [who] treats the novel as a tamer treats a wild beast." The encomium is understandable but slightly out of synch. Like Greene, Moore writes both serious works of art and prinking entertainments. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and Catholics placed Moore in the front rank of contemporary writers. Whatever its intentions, the Collection ends as a Great Victorian Legpull. And pace Greene, this time it is the short limb that is being pulled...
...roller skates for the 42nd Gala de l'Union des Artistes, a Paris benefit in behalf of retired entertainers. The show, which takes place May 23, features show-biz folk in a circus setting and includes Actresses Romy Schneider as a horsewoman and Sydne Rome as a lion tamer. Caron, 43, who first laced on skates just three weeks ago, has been wheeling about every day and, according to bystanders, is improving fast. The former ballerina still seems a trifle apprehensive about the whole thing. Says she: "My God, dancing is one thing, but this roller skating is really...