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That men (and women, too, naturally) are products of their environment is a fact we should all know by now, but Burt Avedon's Ah, Men! goes into pedantic detail on the subject, using a few of his own thoughts but mostly those of a rather notable group, including Ashley Montagu, Helen Gurley Brown, Sterling Hayden, Gore Vidal, Michael Korda, George Plimpton, et al., in this dry, humorless tome. There are chapters on Growing Up, Work, Goals and Sex, and the quotes run from the noble (Plimpton: "I went to an English school in New York where we were taught...
...told Marlon to hurry and get all his clothes together and go up on the roof because I didn't know whether Burt would come back up the elevator or run up the stairs...
...Burt Reynolds, everybody's favorite Everyman, has often expressed his desire to become the Cary Grant of the '80s. Lesley-Anne Down, with her Cool Whip body and a mouth that seems always on the verge of an indecent proposal, must have been told she could be the next Grace Kelly. Don Siegel, who makes diamond-hard action movies, has always wanted to direct an elegant, light-fingered comedy like the Grant-Kelly To Catch a Thief. For all anyone knows, Ernest Borgnine wishes he were Fred Astaire. But wishes aren't horses-and if they were...
...Vegas where Looking to Get Out was being filmed, and who looked-successfully-for a way to get out? Well, it wasn't Ann-Margret, who stars in the movie as a prostitute with a heavy past. She remained in focus along with Co-Stars Jon Voight, Burt Young, and the magic team of Siegfried and Roy. The tiger felt better out of the glare of the klieg lights and was only reluctantly coaxed back on camera. But the temporary escape made a nice publicity Bengal for the movie, so to speak...
...marked product often sells for 30% to 50% less than the national brand, and some 14,000 stores now carry no-brand products. A study in Chicago showed that only 3.8% of potato chips but 35% of paper towels sold were generic products. Says J. Walter Thompson U.S. Chairman Burt Manning: "Brands are important when you are dealing with a product...