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...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit. An unevenly funny surrealistic foray into the no man's land of Momism. Nymphet Barbara Harris makes the scene, the play, and the evening...
...lovely love of a good top model make an honest writer of David again? Barbara takes a furlough from her career and her rich French would-be lover and wine coach (''Remember, the red wine must never be chilled") to find the answer. "My head is full of you," says David, ignoring his typewriter. "That's wrong," says Barbara mock-sternly, "it's supposed to be full of beautiful words and declarative sentences." It takes a heap of declarative sentences, including several inverse clichés that are almost as good as clichés ("Love...
David Jordan (Richard Kiley) is an expatriate ''Europe bum,'' a permanent house and party guest on the Paris-Monte Carlo-St. Tropez axis. He once wrote a Pulitzer Prizewinning novel and now has trouble whisking the dust off his typewriter. Barbara Woodruff (Diahann Carroll), tall and graceful as a flamingo, has taken a long-legged step from a Harlem fire escape to a high-fashion perch as the best-paid model in Paris. Her philosophy: "I just want money, and then some money, and loads of lovely love...
Tallyho. Actors with plain, pronounceable, American Legion sort of names yearn for toning up. Ruby Stevens is Barbara Stanwyck; Peggy Middleton is Yvonne De Carlo; Norma Jeane Baker is Marilyn Monroe. Even Gladys Smith found a little more stature in the name Mary Pickford. On the other hand, embarrassed bluebloods shed their hyphens and thus declare their essential homogeneity with the masses. Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho. He became Ray Milland. Spangler Arlington Brugh denuded himself of all his nominal raiment and emerged as Robert Taylor. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston amputated it neatly...
...Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman. The author's account of the thundering first month of World War I as probably the best-planned and worst-executed war in history...