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...Billy Wilder had a problem: finding a piece of furniture for his afternoon naps. "After all," the famed movie director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment) confided to a friend, "a man of my reputation simply can't afford to have something that looks like a casting couch in his office. It's too obvious a symbol of lechery...
...Charles Eames, the multitalented industrial designer whose molded plywood and leather "Eames chair" is a furniture classic. Busy on a host of other projects-films, graphics, toys and the IBM Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, to name a few-Eames took twelve years to satisfy Wilder's need, while Billy had to make do with a chair and ottoman. But the result, called simply "the Chaise" by its designer, was worth the wait. It is a long, curiously narrow (only 17½ in. wide), aluminum and leather chair, shaped beyond any suspicion...
...Director Wilder grows ecstatic about his new acquisition. "I adore the originality of its shape," he says. "It isn't the old-fashioned Rubens couch; it's more like Giacometti." Eames agrees that the Chaise "is comfortable and works," but he has one reservation: "I'm sad that it's so miserably expensive. What's really discouraging is that its cost doesn't rule it out of the market." Indeed not. This fall, Manhattan's Herman Miller Inc. began taking orders for copies of the Eames-Wilder Chaise-at $636 apiece...
...echoes sometimes blend into a solid chorus, credit must be divided between Director Gene Kelly and his choreographer, Michael Kidd. Ernest Lehman's script is based on the Broadway musical (which was based on Thornton Wilder's farce The Matchmaker). It is woven from a solitary yarn. Matchmaker Dolly Levi sets great store by Horace Vandergelder's feed and grain store and decides to snare him for her own. She does. Curtain. In between their coy runaround, tiny complications arise. None of them matter, but several are the premises for blithe and sumptuous dance numbers. The most...
...today: Can Laugh-In's Goldie Hawn really act? Yes, she can, and so can Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman. With that kind of cast, a Sears, Roebuck catalogue could serve as a script, and Cactus Flower is far more than that. Director Gene Saks is no Billy Wilder, but Wilder's collaborator I.A.L. Diamond (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment) is still I.A.L. Diamond, and he knows funny lines when he writes them. Ornamenting Abe Burrows' stage hit (itself an adaptation of a French farce), Diamond outfits his confident cast with a situation as pretested...