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...religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." Another favorite is urbane, eccentric Woody Allen, who is currently flipping the filmniks by writing a Japanese movie in which the dubbed-in sound track is totally different from what is occurring onscreen...
Actor Burton started things off with a dramatic recital of the closing lines from Camelot ("Don't let it be forgot"). Then he brought on his wife, offering the viewing public more square inches of Elizabeth Taylor than have ever been seen before onscreen. Displaying a ballooning figure that erupted from a low-cut red dress, Liz appeared somewhat disarrayed, as if she had just left a hot, messy kitchen to answer the front door. Burton disclosed that his wife had been invited by Oxford University to play Helen of Troy, "if," giggled Liz, "I lose 20 pounds." Sammy...
...lovely when Greta Garbo resurrected her onscreen, prowling around in trousers with John Gilbert in 1933's Queen Christina. Still, the myth persisted that besides being wanton and mannish, Sweden's baroque queen was plain ugly. A catty tale. Archaeologists opened the marble tomb in the Vatican grotto where she was buried in 1689, discovered the silver death mask of a handsome woman who might have played the Garbo part herself...
Snoopy, who upstages the rest of the company every time he is onscreen, wins first prize with his doghouse deco rations. Nice Guy Charlie Brown natu rally finishes last- he can't even find a decent Christmas tree. "You've been dumb before, Charlie Brown," snorts Lucy, "but this time you really...
...been tinkering with the formula. As Piet and Lucia go through their appointed rounds of deception and huff-and-puff chase, the reader begins to realize that too many of the motivations are phony, too much of the real action takes place offscreen, while too much of the onscreen talk comes out with a kind of freshly translated stiffness, as though the characters were speaking directly in English subtitles...