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...plot collapses around Shirley MacLaine, cast as a girl reporter who infiltrates the seraglio of King Fawz (Peter Ustinov) looking for a lewd scoop and discovers the missing Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) instead. One night, summoned to Fawz for fondling, Shirley rubs down with garlic, dons a fright wig, blacks out her teeth, stuffs upholstery under her skirts and bounces onto the sheik's bed screeching: "Come on, honey, ain't you gonna sing me a dirty song?" He doesn't, but if he did, it would be one of the movie's lesser offenses against taste...
...giant, evil-colored moon that slides malevolently across a leaden sky. The aura of decadence set the mood for Salome's dance of the veils. For Nilsson's performance, it was more choreographed hootchy-kootchy than basic bump and grind. Coiffed in a black mushroom wig, she swayed and shimmied, shedding red chiffon veils until she was down to black net tights and corset...
...MOZART? (Philips). The Swingle Singers, having made J. S. Bach a belated bestseller by scat-singing him (Bach's Greatest Hits), have tried to do the same by Mozart (Sonata No. 15, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik). Unfortunately, young Mozart never was as cool a swinger as the Old Wig, and the babaladelahs sound emptier festooning his classical melodies...
Walk a few steps past the American history monographs on the fourth level of Widener's stacks and you will find yourself amid such engaging titles as The Vice Czar Murders, Death in the Wheelbarrow, The Corpse Wore a Wig, and Who Cut the Colonel's Throat? You are looking at some of the nearly 2000 detective novels from the 1930's and early 1940's that the University shelves with other fiction in the PZ section. And although Widener's librarians are doubtless more comfortable thinking of these books as the George A. Reisner Collection, official terminology cannot disguise...
Anouilh puts his characters into wigs, and they traverse the centuries back to the French Terror of 1793. The play begins ten years after the end of World War II. Maxime (Charles D. Gray), a rich aristocratic rightist, decides to hold a wig party in a Gothic catacomb of a cellar. All his guests are to come as leading figures of the Revolution. Maxime himself plays Saint-Just. Other friends play Danton, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI ("virtually a nonspeaking role") and the Comte de Mirabeau. The butt of the party is to be Bitos (Donald Pleasence), the local deputy prosecutor...