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...RAIDED MINSKY'S was one of the nicest surprises of the old year: a funny, affectionate valentine to the vanished days of burlesque. Songs, dances, and moldy jokes are all delivered with appropriate irreverence. The actors, including Jason Robards and Norman Wisdom as a couple of seedy comics, Britt Ekland as an innocent young thing in the big city, and Joseph Wiseman and Harry Andrews as concerned fathers, all seem perfect for their parts...
When Swedish Starlet Britt Ekland, 26, first announced her intention to divorce peripatetic Comedian Peter Sellers, 43, she pleaded a case that would pluck at any mother's heartstrings. "You can't imagine," she wailed, "how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world." So saying, Britt left Peter and began transporting baby, nanny and possessions all over the world-off to New York for the filming of Britt's latest movie, Stiletto, then down to Puerto Rico for more shooting, then back to London for the Sellers...
...barefaced comedy is matched by the pratfall plot. Rachel, a chaste Amish girl (Britt Ekland) decides that since dancing is mentioned in the Bible and Minsky's Manhattan burlesque house is not, joining the chorus line must be all right with God. When her Fundamentalist father comes roaring after her for "uncovering thy protuberances," she defies him by jettisoning her clothes onstage, thereby creating the striptease...
Divorced. Peter Sellers, 43, Britain's bumbling prince of the clowns (The Pink Panther, Dr. Strangelove); by Britt Ecklund, 25, sometime Swedish actress; on uncontested grounds of cruelty; after nearly five years of marriage, one child; in London...
Divorced. Sammy Davis Jr., 43, diminutive, jumping jack-of-all show business and one of the world's highest-paid Negro entertainers; by May Britt, 31, lissome Swedish actress, on grounds of mental cruelty; after eight years of marriage, three children, two of them adopted; in Santa Monica, Calif...