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...fell into four categories: vintage movie actors (Roy Rogers, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Fred MacMurray, Loretta Young, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis), British-born stars (James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, Rod Stewart, Elton John), movers and shakers (Henry Kissinger, Armand Hammer) and the special-interest famous (Henry Winkler, Mort Sahl). British reporters were nonplussed by M.C. Ed McMahon but mostly liked George Burns' aging-rake jokes, while the Queen, looking unamused, seemed to scrutinize more than enjoy the pop medley sung by Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. In all, said Britain's Guardian, "not exactly...
...dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1966 to 1979, he installed a professional acting troupe that premiered such plays as Ted Tally's Terra Nova and Sam Shepard's Pulitzer-prizewinning Buried Child and trained performers as diverse as Meryl Streep and Henry Winkler. The company also tried some daffy updating of classics: the 1607 Revenger's Tragedy be came an essay on Viet Nam War protest, the witches in Macbeth came from a spaceship, and The Frogs of Aristophanes frolicked in a Yale swimming pool...
...Terrestrial ($290 million) and An Officer and a Gentleman ($91 million) still going strong, studio bosses may have been reluctant to introduce new products. They may also be wary of making too many movies, what with the average budget today running in excess of $10 million. Says Producer Irwin Winkler: "In 1976 I made Rocky for $ 1 million. Today, even if the actors' salaries were the same, it would cost $6 million to $7 million to make that picture. So there are significantly fewer films being made, and a lot of the more serious films are falling...
...Elizabeth Taylor, 50, and Brooke Shields, 17. Brookie will be joining me in a spoof of Happy Days moved ahead 50 years from now. She'll play the new girl in town, and I'll play the Fonz. (Eat your heart out, Winkler.) Brookie's been in seven of my last 15 specials. I don't want to say that we've been spending a lot of time together, but I think I saw less of Crosby...
...named Babaloo Mandel can be without its patches of agreeable whimsy. But Ron Howard, who has been acting in sitcoms (The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days) for most of his 28 years, should know more about shaping comic characters, situations and moods than he shows here. Winkler, the Fonz on Happy Days, is pleasantly put-upon here; Michael Keaton, also from TV, is mildly manic; and Shelley Long so resembles Pam Dawber in her squeaky cuteness that one wonders why the producers didn't raid Mork and Mindy for the real thing. Sitcom humor, like water...