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...Have a fag, mate," cracked Ringo Starr. Neither twin was very tony. Still it was hard to tell them apart until someone asked if the real Beatles would please sit down. The ones with the wax between their ears didn't move, and fans at London's Madame Tussaud's were finally sure which was which. Louis Armstrong knocked the rag mops off the top of Variety's singles chart last week, and the whisper was that they had passed their peak. But if their graven images at the world's foremost wax museum were...
Diapers can be changed at the Scott Paper Pavilion, shoes shined by Johnson's Wax. Lost children can be found on some 300 closed-circuit color TV sets. Baby sitters can be found at the Protestant and Orthodox Center and at the Danish Pavilion's miniature Tivoli Gardens. Wallets can be found (sometimes) through the Pinkerton police. Status can be found in one of the industrial exhibitor's VIP rooms. Rest can be found in the Garden of Meditation. Sleep can be found on a mattress at the Simmons Beautyrest exhibit-$1 for 30 minutes...
Baby is better at cracking wise than being wise. When Woodward announces that she has preserved her beauty as a sacred obligation to her public, Newman reveals that she has had a dozen face-lifts and is so full of wax that she doesn't dare get close to a fireplace. Newman's funniest conceit, in every sense, is an idea to package frozen "Celebrity Seed" so that every woman in America can have a baby by her favorite actor, singer, TV panelist, "or in certain isolated instances, dress designer." That's what Baby needs -a playwright...
...promises to "make it a felony to drink small beer." Desdemona reproaches herself for having falsely "indicted" Othello and "suborn'd" her soul as a witness against him. In Venus and Adonis, the temptress sounds as if she were writing a contract: "Set thy seal-manual on my wax-red lips...
Wrinkle preparations are as old as vanity, and over the centuries have been concocted from wax, incense, ale, bread, synthetic hormones, turtle oils and placenta extracts. The latest lotions are made from, of all things, cows' blood. Developed by the research laboratories of meat-packing Armour & Co., the process uses proteins drawn from the blood to temporarily smooth and fill in furrows, much like a glossy, translucent mudpack. The lotions are invisible on the face, because they react to light the same way that human skin does...