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...Student Gypsy. Composer, Lyricist, Librettist and Director Rick Besoyan has moved from Off-Broadway to Broadway, and from a Little Mary Sunshine to a lot of deadly nightshade. Sunshine was a mildly pleasant little spoof of bygone musicals featuring red-coated forest rangers. Gypsy is an ornately boring take-off on woebegone musicals starring mythical Balkan kingdoms. Besoyan is about as creative as a coroner, and his flaming wit conceives ashy dialogue...
...Every Elbow. If the Russians were in evidence before, their presence overwhelms today. Awaiting take-off of their TU-114 at José Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...
Todd in Uniform. Though Author Ferber indulges in no idle name-dropping, people like the Lunts, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Noel Coward and George Kaufman troop through the pages of her book. In her one stage appearance in The Royal Family, a savagely funny take-off of the Barrymores, which she wrote with Kaufman, Louis Calhern accidentally dropped her on her bottom as he carried her up a stage staircase. In Paris during the last days of World War II, she met Mike Todd decked out in what appeared to be a porter's uniform decorated with countless rows of ribbons...
...done much -"some summer stock and a little TV," plus a hostessing stint in a friend's Manhattan restaurant. Fittingly, she's playing a faded movie star, and she's not a bit bashful about it: "It's more or less doing a take-off of myself." "They still admire each other very, very much, and they will always be the best of friends." Such sentiments, expressed as they were by the family lawyer, naturally meant that Gloria Vanderbilt De Cicco Stokowslci Lumet, 39, was off to divorceland once again. After seven years with Movie Director...
Through the years he sharpened his typewriter on fact, rumor and wild gossip, a melange that he now serves up at three-column length every day. His comments on politics and politicians are studiously uninhibited. A recent column started out with a take-off on the country's current President: "A surprising story is going around-João Goulart has decided to govern the country. Sources, despite their usual reliability, did not mention two things: 1) Where did Senhor Goulart learn to govern? 2) Where did he get enough energy to come to this conclusion by himself...