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...Danced All Night in Warner Brothers' My Fair Lady, the voice on the sound track won't be Audrey's. It belongs to Marni Nixon, the ghostess with the mostest. A girl with a rubber range, Marni is a redheaded, blue-eyed lyric soprano who can slip into a contralto and sing in the accents of any unmusical star. She was also the voice of Natalie Wood in West Side Story, of Deborah Kerr in The King and I, of Janet Leigh in Pepe...
...years she comes out on probation to join Daughter Diane Baker, who has been raised on a ranch by an aunt and uncle. Diane takes Lucy out to see where they "butcher the chickens," then shows off the pigs. "We fatten them up for the slaughter." Oh oh, slip of the tongue. Sorry. Lucy looks away. Pretty soon, by golly, a person can't carve a roast for dinner without precipitating a household crisis. Someone scissors through the family album, decapitating old snapshots. Then Lucy gets a black wig, a flowered silk dress, and three pounds of bangles...
KNIFE IN THE WATER. A sexy Polish thriller about three people aboard a Freudian sloop on which there's many a slip...
...inadvertently perpetuate a misinterpretation in saying that I "let slip the opinion that there are only 18 'good' U.S. dailies." What I originally said was that of 200 major dailies, 10 to 18 would generally be ranked as "excellent" or "first-rate" by knowledgeable critics. That is not a bad percentage of excellence in any field. More important is the growing element of leadership on many dailies that seeks excellence, abhors distortion of news, and welcomes constructive criticism. There is fortunately more of this spirit in all branches of journalism than ever before...
...Jersey's Scott Ethan Allen, 14: the men's national figure skating championship, at Cleveland. Youngest skater ever to win, Allen recovered from a near-disastrous slip in the free skating to defeat Pennsylvanian Tommy Litz, last year's champion. The women's champion: freckle-faced Peggy Fleming, 15, daughter of a pressman on the Los Angeles Times. Said Peggy's proud mother: "It wasn't a surprise to us. It was a complete shock...