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...heavy-set man (180 Ibs.), Tucker leads as dedicated a life as any tenor. On performance days, he rises at 10, has coffee, juice, perhaps cereal, for breakfast. Around 4 p.m., he has eggs, toast and coffee and then nothing until after the performance, when he eats a sandwich. "The day I sing, I'm a stranger in the house. Talking is hard on the voice, so I don't talk." His three sons know better than to talk to him very much on those days...
Mixed Emotions. In Salem, Ore., police looked for the burglar who broke into Mrs. Jeanne Hopkins' home, ripped up linoleum between the living room and the dining room, opened a can of varnish and varnished an old newspaper, made a batch of French toast in the kitchen, baked a fudge cake from a recipe on a Betty Crocker Mix box, stole a ten-inch pie plate...
Pearson quipped that in Moscow the toast might well have been: "To the U.S., surrounded as she is by Mexico on the south, Canada on the north, and the Atlantic and Pacific on the east and west." The states men laughed approvingly...
...Charisse is a big-name French ballerina who is haughtily accustomed to being the toast of the town. In Las Vegas. she turns out to be just a very expensive kind of digestif: she is expected to dance while the customers eat. Even more shockingly barbaric, she feels, is the mechanical monster she finds lurking in her boudoir-her own personal 25? slot machine that was installed, the management hastens to assure her, as a sign of especial esteem. Worst of all, the male population is made up mostly of gamblers, who are so busy losing money that they have...
...with nothing to do, through most of the picture, but make sandwiches. And yet, Actor Marvin, who is easily the most repulsive object that Hollywood has dug up in recent years, is such a skillful performer that when he starts hacking away at a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato on toast, the spectator has all the visceral sensations of watching an MVD interrogator go to work on an enemy of the people. As for most of the other players, they might do worse than accept the advice that one of them snarls at another: "Quit acting...