Word: casbah
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...Morocco breezed into D.C. A party in his honor ruffled feathers of those on the never-ending Washington party circuit, Ear claims, because "a) (the King) didn't show; b) it was a weeny bit in the basement; and c) that romantic word (on the invitation) something like 'Casbah' actually turned out to be 'Cash Bar'. Luckily, Uncle Oscar always carries...
...apparent heart attack suffered two days after his wife of 36 years had died; in Phoenix. Endowed with a voice that women found deeply sensual, Boyer was probably best known for the invitation credited to him (but never uttered) in Algiers: "Come weez me to ze Casbah...
...limitation as well as its achievement is that it faithfully re-creates the sand-blown Legion epics of the 1930s. It is an instant late show. And like those oldies on TV, it is dotted with lovably preposterous lines. The immaculate Deneuve, looking in a filthy casbah like a woman at a Chanel showing, coos to Hill: "You don't belong here." Hackman stands amid the devastation of a French outpost where the previous commander thought fortifications were unnecessary. "Obviously," says Hackman, eying the bleached skeletons, "he was wrong...
...Atlanta, one of the newest, swingingest hotpots is Penrod's, a lushly decorated, laid-back "environment." There are also The Foxhunt and The Casbah. For the older, squarer set, there is Burl's Joint, the focal point of a new restaurant opened in May by Burt Reynolds. Inside the huge Omni Hotel complex, Burt's is designed like a Hollywood sound stage, with sets from Show Boat, the trolley from A Streetcar Named Desire and endless blowups of the owner's favorite actor. The sound is radio-oriented, with Sinatra...
...dances are jaggedly choreographed, incidental music has the tex ture of a blind fog, and the costumes might have been purchased on the Skid Row of the Casbah. The acting is on the high school epic level - strident, collision-prone and panicky. Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater ought to be declared a disaster area...