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...known as Omni Zoetrope Studio and owned by Coppola. The walls in Waits' suite are made of old mahogany. A Yamaha grand piano fills half of one of the rooms. An elaborate tape deck shares a coffee table with magazines, cassettes and scripts. "There's a David Niven feel to the room which I rather enjoy," he says, his eyes scanning the rich wainscoting...
Larry Gelbart's original script-about a couple of high-society crooks, their $30 million heist and the wily Scotland Yard inspector (David Niven) who dogs their trail-may have meant to revive the old Hitchcock tradition of sophisticated comedy. But so frail a genre is more style than substance, and Siegel's trooper-boot direction flattens out the laugh lines and bits of business until they have all the charm of an airport runway. Gelbart was smart enough to remove his name from the credits (hence the screenwriter pseudonym). Reynolds was not so lucky...
...divorce. A tomboy sort, wearing green-bordered knee socks and walking boots, Libby has trekked across the country to find out what her father is like. She suffers instant disenchantment. Dressed in seedy duds with a baseball cap glued to his head, Herb is not at all the David Niven type, with pipe, Great Danes, and book-lined living room, that Libby had envisioned...
...Union Jack fluttered over Delhi's posh Roshanara Club, while pukka sahib types bowled on the cricket pitch. The bar of the Calcutta Light Horse, a regiment founded a century ago, was pink gin-deep in British officers. Some of them, though, looked film-familiar: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore and Trevor Howard. The pseudo sahibs were shooting The Sea Wolves, about a daring 1943 attack on a German communications ship anchored off Goa. How did it feel to re-create the days of empire? Said Niven to his Indian hosts, in a line that would never have...
...average to .467 with yesterday's fireworks and doubled his season's RBI total...Stenhouse hiked his average from .356 to .408...Bobby Kelley has been stinging the ball of late with very little to show for it. MIT AB R H BI Souter, 2b 2 0 0 0 Niven, rf 1 0 0 0 T. Garverick, ss 3 0 1 0 Steinhagen, 1b 0 0 0 0 Shapiro, 1b 0 0 0 0 Kracunas, lf-c 4 0 0 0 Nowiszewski, dh-p 4 0 0 0 Fordiani, 3b 1 0 0 0 Griffin...