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...Jack Lemmon don't work nearly so well together as in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie. By chance this assertion can be tested since The Fortune Cookie is on re-release at the Orpheum. It, rather than The Odd Couple or The Producers, is the legitimate '60's heir to the best tradition of Hollywood comedies...
Evil Wind. Less political-minded than the other proletarian princesses, but perhaps as prominent, is Lin Toutou, daughter of Marshall Lin Piao, Mao's top lieutenant and heir apparent. Her articles from the Air Force News, including an unusually emotional tribute to the late Air Force Commander Liu Ya-lou, are said to be prominently displayed under the glass plate on Marshal Lin's desk. Both the fatherly pride and the daughterly sentimentality are surprising-if ever so slight-touches of humanity in a country that has lately taken to warning its youth against "the evil wind...
...taste, pocketbooks and arches of a clientele that has included Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Garbo and Audrey Hepburn. When he died, his family took over the business in the best Italian tradition. Today his widow nominally serves as president, while a son, Ferruccio, 23, is commercial director and heir apparent. But because the firm's emphasis is on style, Designer Fiamma is its driving force...
Died. Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, 87, widow of the West Coast sugar heir, and art patroness, who gave San Francisco one of its finest museums; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. Inspired by Paris' Palace of the Legion of Honor, Mrs. Spreckels built her own $4,000,000 Legion of Honor art museum in 1924 and stocked it with one of the largest collections of Rodins outside France...
Spoken references to that unfilmed past which set up the plot premise provide an idea both of Chabrol's pragmatism and the point at which his imagination begins to make connections and build strange relationships between the characters: Paul is the legitimate heir to the Wagner champagne firm, an old and fabulously respected French wine. His father was swindled out of ownership by a man whose daughter Christine (Yvonne Furneaux) now runs the company. Paul has only rights to the name Wagner, this preventing Christine from selling the company to crass American industrialists who won't buy the firm without...