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THEATER On Broadway TINY ALICE. Everyone's afraid of Alice in Edward Albee's brain teaser, though no one seems to know who she is. John Gielgud and Irene Worth are excellent in the respective roles of a lay brother and the world's richest woman...
DUTCHMAN. A sex-teaser white girl lures and then tongue-lashes a sedate Negro in a subway car until he turns on her with a venomous tirade of racial hate. Playwright LeRoi Jones aims to terrify, and between stations he succeeds...
Sunday in New York is another brightly salacious Hollywood comedy about the way of a man with a maid who just may. "This motion picture," leers an announcement flashed on the screen as a teaser, "is dedicated to the proposition that every girl gets . . . sooner or later." As usual, winking wickedness turns out to be mostly eyewash, but the plot-more to be pitied than censored-gets a buoyant lift from Stars Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Rod Taylor. All three abandon themselves to the film version of Norman Krasna's trite Broadway farce with disarming faith, as though...
...Teaser. Ford is the most conspicuous in framing its appeal to youth. It has organized a hootenanny show that tours U.S. colleges, publishes Sunday comic strips featuring the exploits of Ford-powered racing cars in 108 papers, and offers Ford books on driving to 1,500,000 high school students by direct mail. Ford is also concentrating on a youth market that so far has been largely ignored by the other automakers: the nation's 300,000 hot rodders. It has a five-man team that visits hot-rod exhibits and rallies around the country, exhibiting five hot rods...
...press. As the Times story pointed out, Jackie has been the victim of a noisome tide of gossip stories in movie mags and Confidential-type rags. Month after month, Jackie's picture, and often Caroline's, has been splashed on the covers of such magazines. Teaser cover headlines are calculated to shill breathless readers into thinking that they will learn about the most intimate recesses of Jackie's life. The articles inside never live up to the billing. Samples...