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...booms music to go to pieces by. As a manic-depressive sex kitten, Carol Lynley somehow suggests that a good fortified cereal would put her back together again. McDowall and Whitman, tending the rose garden, make thorny work of it. And Actress Bacall, woefully miscast, exercises her steel-and-velvet charm as if she were running a rest home for demented Bunnies. Bacall's throatiest, most telling line: "I detest stupid people who think they can fake mental illness." Fortunately, nobody need submit to Shock Treatment unless he is dragged in screaming...
...Cover) With the exaggerated gestures of a man who feels the eyes of scrutiny, the short, fox-faced witness removed his serious blue fedora, took off the velvet-collared overcoat with the laven der silk lining, and with well-manicured hands smoothed back a wisp of brown hair. His bright eyes stole briefly across the gathered crowd and looked away again. Then, clutching a black attache case imprinted with his silver initials, Robert Gene Baker, 36, the whizbang from Pickens, S.C., hurried into a hearing room in the old Senate Office Building...
...wife raise dogs, hay, a cow and donkeys. For lunch he munches double brandies, and when he does a drunk scene-as in his new movie, The Bargee, in which he plays a lock tender on a canal-he warms up with bolt after bolt of black velvet (champagne and stout). "Did they think I could fake it with bloody tea?" he asks. Almost by obvious right, the short, deep-voiced Griffith will play Falstaff next spring in Royal National Shakespeare Company performances commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth...
...will be more likely to show up in the strapless, wrapped-towel look-the suit that seems about to fall off any minute, but is so cleverly architected within as to be all but surf-proof. In materials, the newest notions seem to be the least aquatic: white kid, velvet, wool and suede...
...inhabitant is a girl no more than an inch high whose brown pigtails fly out from her head like helicopter rotors. Marisol (that's the only name she uses) checked in with a doll of a self-portrait-a foam rubber figure 3 ft. tall, with one red velvet lip, one of red silk. The doll looks like Marisol, who herself looks like something drawn by Charles Addams...