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...industries they regulate. Industry groups paid for luncheons and hotel rooms for commissioners who frequently found it necessary to examine personally such "surface transportation meccas as Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas." The report says that an industry group even once paid for a hairdresser for Virginia Mae Brown, who chaired the commission until Dec. 31. Mrs. Brown, who last summer announced that members of the commission could not accept any money from regulated industries, says that "to the best of my knowledge it is not true" that she got free beauty treatment. The report adds that eleven...
...Horace Vandergelder, the richest and meanest man in Yonkers, N.Y., Walter Matthau is doing Walter Matthau as he used to be in B pictures, moving through the production like a man with a strong distaste for all around him. As for the lead, Barbra Streisand oscillates between postures: now Mae West, now Lena Horne, now brassily elegant, now flying her Yiddishkeit...
...embarrassment over his novel's exquisite self-revelations, Vidal failed in two efforts to bring off a light, witty scenario. Director Michael Same (Joanna) then tried his pen?to just about everyone's displeasure. Finally, a Hollywood genius-presumptive named David Giler, 26, was called in. To complicate matters, Mae West has insisted on writing her own lines. The script is now in its tenth rewrite, and the ending has yet to be decided upon. Regardless of what is done to the script, the success or failure of Myra ultimately hinges on the girl who wants to stop attitudinizing...
...sheer incompatibility, the volatile cast of Myra is rivaled only by the Burton-Lyon-Gardner gallimaufry of Night of the Iguana. There is crustaceous Veteran Director John Huston portraying Uncle Buck Loner, the sagebrush sybarite. Huston, an inveterate cigar smoker, has been unhappy with a no-smoking clause that Mae West had written into her contract. There is the epicene Rex Reed, who eats peaches, scribbles notes for his book (about the making of Myra, naturally) and regularly breaks up the crew with his lavender drawl. Towering over all is the ribald old empress, Mae West, who threatens to steal...
...movie is anything like the cast, it ought to be a winner. With Raquel Welch, Mae West and John Huston already in the fold, 20th Century-Fox has just signed smart-set chronicler and film critic Rex Reed for a "starring role" in Myra Breckinridge. Reed wants everyone to know that he is not -repeat not-playing gay young Myron Breckinridge, who goes under the knife to emerge as Raquel Welch. His part now calls for a young writer who is Myra's "alter ego." Rex thinks the experience will help him as a critic and" is not afraid...