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...dialogue is drab. "You know something, Julie, I've missed you," says Robert Goulet, her co-star in Camelot. It is hard to believe that this is the same sweet-and-sour Andrews of The Americanization of Emily, her best picture-when all you see is Lawrence Welk with nicer legs...
...especially flattered by the turnout of some 400 stage, screen and television celebrities for a party he and the First Lady gave at their San Clemente home. They included such oldtime stars as John Wayne, Jack Benny, George Jessel, James Stewart, Joan Blondell, Ray Bolger, Jimmy Durante and Lawrence Welk, as well as some Democratic turncoats: Frank Sinatra, Jim Brown, Charlton Heston and George Hamilton. (Remember George and Lynda Bird?) The President was in high spirits, chatting amiably and expressing his gratitude "for what you, the people of Hollywood, have done for America and have done for the world...
...fashionably longer hair, Humphrey still suffers from being as out of style as the crew cut, the rumble seat or high-button shoes in a state where voters like their politicians to be with it. As one ranking Democrat in California cracked: "Hubert Humphrey is to politics what Lawrence Welk is to music...
...implausibly making good-the stand-in for Middle America-is hardly present. Where is the incredible personification of passion and blandness, the slicked-down, good-posture public figure who is as careful with a trouser crease as he is careless with an innuendo? Where is the collector of Lawrence Welk records, the doter on Allen Drury novels...
...Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk, Welk with McGeehan...