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...Duke, who will play host to Lynda when she visits Spain this summer. A Certain Kind. As it happened, that was Lynda Bird's second brush with the law during a three-day trip to New York with her mother to see some plays, do some shopping (at Peck & Peck, she proved that there's a certain kind of woman who can look at clothes without buying any) and, most important, help Sister Luci Baines pick out a trousseau for her Aug. 6 wedding. The afternoon before the Lasker bash, Lynda graced a table at Manhattan...
...fashions as well, two years ago began producing a full line of custom and ready-to-wear men's clothes. His men's fashions now gross $8,000,000 a year, five times the gross of his women's line. Among Cardin's customers: Gregory Peck, Cecil Beaton, Yul Brynner and George Hamilton...
...have been assembled in the same mechanical way. Certainly some unimaginative travel agent chose the in-and-around-London locations: Trafalgar Square, the Zoo, the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. A consultant on film fads surely recommended the modish scenes of violence, since the villains pursuing Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck from one landmark to the next seldom just take out a gun and shoot. Instead, Director Stanley Donen (Charade, Indiscreet) assigns a helicopter and a wrecking crane to tasks of mayhem, and later, in a quiet English field, three lumbering farm machines-all, of course, painted in primary hues-turn...
...then, a bit of plot sprouts through the film's glossy surfaces, most of it familiar knavery about the assassination of a Middle Eastern Prime Minister. The P.M.'s life depends on Professor Peck's ability to drag himself away from his archaeological tomes and from Double Spy Sophia long enough to decode a message in hieroglyphics. Though Peck looks comfortable enough in the library, he resembles a stand-in for Gary Grant when he seeks refuge in Sophia's shower, fidgeting while the lady purrs: "Call me Yasmin-at least while...
...weaknesses are ignored or glossed over so swiftly and uncritically that the Bay of Pigs "setback" seems a mere preliminary bout for the Administration's sword's-point showdown over the dismantling of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. "There were those who disagreed with the President," says Peck. But they obviously don't matter very much. On the New Frontier, once unreliable U.S. rockets sail obediently into orbit. In the movie's oversimple view of Washington under Kennedy, intramural shoptalk and crackling press conferences disappear, for the city is "transformed into a cultural capital." In fact...