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...BURT LANCASTER appeared one evening in a terry-cloth robe at a back door in a well-trimmed New York suburban neighborhood. "Are you the lady of the house?" he asked. "May I have a vodka martini?" He got it. See SHOW BUSINESS...
...head. He is stoned. Into the pool plop Neddy Merrill and a bikinied blonde. They shake the man awake. "Know what day this is?" The drunk couldn't care less. Neddy and the blonde swim the length of the pool, get out and move on. Neddy Merrill is Burt Lancaster, the girl is Starlet Janet Landgard, and the scene is from a movie called The Swimmer, now being filmed in Connecticut's Fairfield County, a quaintly sybaritic suburb of New York City. The picture is an adaptation of John Cheevers short story about Neddy's attempt...
...Scenarists Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove (who wrote the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) dress hip gags in a graceful English manner, and their wayward humor brightens train wrecks, horse-and-buggy chase scenes and a hearse-to-hearse search for missing bodies. Among the grimly gay daguerrotypes at hand are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as a pair of craven city cousins. Peter Sellers, as a sawbones who specializes in questionable cases, looks like a depraved caricature of Benjamin Franklin, while Wilfrid Lawson all but steals the show as a loyal...
...Born. To Burt Ward, 21, who plays Batman's teen-age sidekick, Robin, on TV, and Bonney Ward, 20, his wife of a year: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...
...inback Riders and Revelers! Trilogy of Teeterboard Terrors!" And the circus' biggest acts are still those with negative benefits: a Siberian tiger named King rides around on a horse named Tiger and does NOT eat him; a Mexican acrobat does a triple somersault-the one that gave Burt Lancaster all that trouble in Trapeze-and does NOT fall: Helena Rassy's pastel-dyed pigeons are released from the balcony and flutter down to her and NOT into the crowd...