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Life at the Top continues to follow the spoor of Joe Lampton, the scheming, snarling anti-hero of British Novelist John Braine's Room at the Top. In this movie sequel, based on the sequel to the bestseller, nearly everything has changed except Laurence Harvey's skintight performance...
...young feeling infected even Balenciaga, who at 72 is considered the Michelangelo of the trade. The master put his hostesses in white stretch pants under taupe chiffon or gold lamé topped by an ermine poncho. Sauciest fillip was a see-through chiffon muumuu worn over a flesh-colored skintight jump suit. And Pierre Cardin exposed his pound of flesh through circular cutouts scattered at strategic points on his dresses -here at the collarbone, there smack dab over the navel. He also wolfishly evoked Little Red Riding Hood, with dozens of furry capped capes...
...says, is "the only dancer who has anything to show me that I don't already know." He uses the phone like a postcard, calling dancer friends around the world, chitchatting in fluent, slightly accented English. When visitors arrive, he will emerge wearing high, tan moccasins, skintight, sky-blue pants and flowing fuchsia shirt. Scattered about the living room are effects that mark the mystery of the man -gilt-bound tomes of Balzac and Schiller next to a pile of toys that he amuses himself with: a soccer game, a Yo-Yo, a gun that shoots pingpong balls...
...with Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife, her first Hollywood film. Sylva (38-26-38) Koscina, 27, is another tall, cool one, a Yugoslav by birth, who came on strong in Joseph Levine's muscle opera, Hercules, and keeps the paparazzi popping by strolling around in skintight black leather ski pants...
...Hungarian omelet begins, "First, you steal a dozen eggs," and when Marlene Dietrich came on to sing at the Cannes Palm Beach Casino, the world's most professional Hungarian was sitting at a ringside table with her photographer. The world's sexiest sexagenarian had on a skintight, flesh-colored gown so diaphanous that her contract forbade pictures during the performance, but as Zsa Zsa Gabor told it, "My cameraman was so overcome by Marlene's beauty that he asked if I thought she would mind being photographed. I told him to carry on." After the show, when...