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I i 1 'S CTo 1 1 aiic j. y7 W'a-AertU 'WtrUMCWf 'JH loi cs of Hollywood For Hollywood Gossipel Truth TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1968 Shakespeares 12th Night, and believe me, Shakespeares "12th Night never had it so good! Ray (Hollywood Beachcombers) Tine spotted this sign on the back of a truck in Hollywood: Keep your eye on my rear, not hers. BRUCE CABOT and Fran-cine Dunning, who does TV commercials, were a duo at Dinos Lodge Lola Albright and Bill Chadney separated again. And have started dating each other again John Austin is the favorite to co-star with Dyan Cannon (ex-Mrs. Cary Grant) in Allan Shermans new musical, Fig Leaves Are Falling," due for Broadway this winter For a secne in Where Its At, filming in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, David Janssen is supposed to put his last dollar into a slot machine and go broke.

Each time Janssen did, the slot machine paid off. Director Garson Kanin had to make 14 takes of the scene until Janssen hit three lemons and no payoff. But dont get me wrong. I love Hollywood. Girl will be playing.

And foremost, David Merrick will try to postpone the release of the film because his contract with studio stipulates that the movie cant be released until the Broadway show closes. And Its good for say another two years with Pearl Bailey. 20th-Fox contends the contract means the original (and white) company. It could be a lawsuit. The town (Hollywood) has a new hit musical, Your Own Thing, at the Huntington Hartford.

Its there with the original New York cast. (Danny Apolinar, Marcia Rodd, Rusty Thacker and Leland Palmer are some of the unknowns you know when the cast is taking the bows). And its original in other important departments. The music and the lyrics have a new sound, and youve never seen the projection of the sets as done on the stage of the Huntington Hartford. Although not listed, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, The Pope, and Queen Elizabeth are important and entertaining members of the show.

The whole thing, or to be more exact, Your Own Thing, is a wild adaption of William SEAN CONNERY can be found often in a booth at Schwabs playing the movie game, One More, with Glenn Rose, Ed Peck and Jo Heims. Connery is the one with the moustache There has really been action with the Schwabadero Stock Company. Leslie, the pretty English waitress behind the soda fountain (I never know the last names of the waitresses and cosmetic girls), delivered her own baby in her bathroom at four a m. the other morning. A five pound girl, Chia.

Both Leslie an Chia are fine Nick Adams widow, Carol, and her current husband, director Paul Rapp, have split Universal is going to do a remake of The Dark Angel, which was first made with Vilma Banky, then remade with Merle Oberon. Its the remake picture The Hello, Dolly company will close down for at least a week for rehearsals of a new dance number. Barbra Streisand will rehearsing with the gypsies. Director Gene Kelly and 20th-Fox executives have been rushing Hello, Dolly, filming some scenes with three cameras, a la television. I cant understand the big rush because the studio cant release Hello, Dolly until late next year, if then.

First, Streisands Funny s' 'j A 4 -W xi Barbra Streisand Talks Up! People dont talk about you unless youre interesting and perhaps exciting. The squares get off easy, says Barbra Streisand This star of Ernest Lehmans Hello Dolly! admits she has a tendency to live in a fantasy world Yet she has instinctive and almost infallible recognition of what suits her in every respect. When I was a teen-ager I lived in another world somehow I still do, because the real world is so ugly. When Id come home from the movies, as a girl, 1 was hall sick for days. As a child I considered myself very ugly, and only after high school did I stop dreaming that I would ever be as cute as Shirley Temple.

In school I was a loner. My father died when I was a baby and my mother worked as an accountant to support my brother and me. I read a lot at that time, mostly about the history of Greece and Rome. But what I wanted most was to go to the movies every day. Id come home from the picture and slip into the bathroom and put on eye shadow and lipstick and imagine myself a motion picture star.

I was determined, even then to become a film star. Hello Dolly!" is Barbras second motion picture and, judging by the enthusiasm engendered in those who have seen her first, Funny Girl, she could dominate the motion picture musical field for some time to come, if she chooses. She might dispute any qualification limiting her to musicals she never regarded hei self as a singer and possibly would not be considered the greatest singing find of a decade, had she been given a chance at acting, which was her chosen fielu A song put her on the map when she was turned away by New York agents without a hearing, every time she applied for an acting role An overnight success, she was swamped with engagements for night clubs, where she built up a tremendous and enthusiastic following in a brief time, this provided her with opportunity to play a small part in the theater. The role of Miss Marmelstein, an unnoticed and unloved secretary in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, proved a show-stopper Manhattan critics hailed this event the debut of a brilliant comedienne. They gave her Best Supporting Actress award in the New York Clitics poll and she won a Tony nomination as well It was a success she had more or less taken for granted she was not surprised when she won the contest without ever taking a singing lesson: My unemployment insurance had run out, she explains, and there was no work In sight.

A friend told me about this contest the winner got free meals and a weeks pay. I wanted to be an actress and I would have taken any job to earn money for acting lessons. So I listened to records to learn some words and I got up in this club and acted out a song. I won and everyone was surprised. They were surprised all over again when I was a hit in night clubs and when my records sold in the millions.

But I was not surprised. I always knew it would happen that way. People were ready for me. Times when Id been turned away without a hearing and told I was too ugly to become an actress. I vowed to myself that the powerful and mighty of show business would run after me not I after them.

Even after I was a success, there were some who wrote I was ugly. That hurt most: it was degrading. Now they compare me with Nefertiti. You learn to follow your own instincts and judgments, if youre going to survive. It is significant that Baibra Streisand has been included in two fashion lists The Ten Best Dressed Women, and The Ten Worst Dressed Women Neither influenced her to any extent.

Yet she has influenced fashion trends more emphatically than most stars notably her love of black and white One costume, a black and white herringbone skirt and weskit and white skirt with drippy bow, was shamelessly copied throughout the trade shortly after she appeared in it and became a teen-age fad. ERUPTS ANGRILY James Garner is furious with Italian police that he and screen wife Debbie Reynolds have been accused of stealing a bus, in funny scene from National General Pictures release, How Sweet It Is! romantic comedy exclusive at the Pacific Pantages. Film is in color. NAACP To Confer Honors At Beverly Hilton Fete ROCK MUSICAL i Your Own Thing Everybodys Bag By CHARLES FABER Approximately 1400 guests are expected to attend the outstanding occasion with several dignitaries of national and local prominence a speakers. An entertainment program featuring top-ranking artists of both races is currently being formulated.

Tickets for the 1968 Image Awards" will be $12.50, according to Donald Lanclos, president of the NAACP Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch, with special dress circle tables available for groups. Information can be obtained by calling chapter headquarters at HO 6 2466. Proceeds from the event will be used to establish permanent headquarters for Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch of NAACP. The national oigamzation, with Roy Wilkins as executive director, has 1600 branches and is wholly supported by dues and donations. The second annual "Image Awards of the Beverly Hills' Hollywood branch of the NAACP will be held this year at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Sept.

22 at 5 p.m. A series of 15 presentations will be made on behalf of the 5 0 0, 000-member inter-racial organization, the largest civil rights group in the world, to industrial establishments, with special emphasis on the entertainment industry, who during the year have done the most to hire Negroes on a current and re-current basis and to portaay a more favorable and realistic image members of that race. A board of distinguished advisors, headed by Dr. Claude Hudson, member of the NAACP national board of directors and president of Family Savings and Loan, will select the recipients for the honors. Formation of this committee is now underway.

PARENT-TEEN OPEN HOUSE ACUPT NATIONAL GENERAL CORPORATION FOX WEST COAST THEATRES FOR INFORMATION CALL THEATRE OR 937-4100 KSSM I oJ Those auditioning are asked to provide their own material, suited to the individuals age, and not to exceed five minutes. Parents are invited to accompany their teens. Northridge Theatre Guild is holding a parent-teen open house at the theatre, 8760 Canby Monday, Aug. 19, at 8 p.m. Interested teens are invited to audition for two drama scholarships to be awarded.

"YOURS, MINE AND OURS" "SOT. OFARRELL" IS DAILY "THE FOX 2 00 Daily Orson, is in love with Viola, who, in Mod dicss and hairdo, looks enough like a boy, and specifically like her bi other, to join a singing group called Apocalypse, who look enough like girls to suppoit their belief todays single standard for the sexes. Orson, however, looks like a male, and Olivia, (who hasnt been tossed overboard with Malvolio et al) looks like a female, which the hermaphrodites i forgivably square. This wonderfully wild nonsense lias a logic of its own, and pulls the nose of morality with scarely a lapse of taste. Its true that boy meets boy, but boy gets pill, and not even the person most firmly convinced that Shakespeare wrote all the Sonnets to the Dark Lady, and none to the Earl of Southampton, will be scandalized.

Leland Palmer and Rusty Thacker, as the look-alike Viola and Sebastian, sing and dance to perfection in the rock id.om, and raise the style to such a high degree of pop art that they seem to belong to a different order, magical sprites issued fiom Shakespeares own imagination. Tom Ligon is superb as Orson, masculine but deeply sensitive, and Marcia Rodd, the Olivia, is a most potent charmer, whose way with a Lne is devastating, and vocal delivery of the showstopping variety. Danny Apolinar, John Kuhner and Antony Travis compuse three-quaiters of the Apocalypse, and rock the house with the rockinest songs in the show. They probably stand in relation to rock as Heifetz- Piatigorsky-Pennario to chamber music. Imogene Bliss gets all her laughs as a nuise who makes an astonishing discovery, and Paul Lukather is heartily efficient as an exasperated stage manager.

The kaleidoscopic visual projections, aga list Robert Guerras architects al setting, are the best ever, clear, exciting and intelligently 1 They move with the show, and i under Donald Drivers direc- tion, the show never stops. Not even for an intermission. And you dont miss it. You just wish they could have sung and danced all night. with George Cates been City jAIRPORT GUESS 1 If theres one thing can help close the generation gap, its Your Own Thing.

The prizewinning rock musical arrived Friday at the Huntington Hartford Theater, and tuined on a sophisticated first night audience whose median age, one hazards, should be toward the sunset side of Jack Bennys professional one. The mamas and the papas in the audience took one indulgent look at the youngsters on stage, and from that moment on How does one say dig it in the past tense? Torget tense. Its all happening now. And the best of the happenings has been brought straight from New York by Zev Bufman, Dorothy Love and James A. Doolittle, who right now must feel like a Roman triumverate glorying In a major victory.

(There should be big bread in this circus.) Its unthinkable that any but the present original cast could play the show which is so much their own thing. Each one is perfectly right, incredibly talented, and they pei form individually and ensemble at a pitch of professionalism which is absolute. Precision, polish and breathtaking speed seem to go naturally with their spontaneity and inexhaustible joy. Some of these enchanting young people dress like hippies (but immaculately), talk and sing like hippies (but articulately and well), and whether they really are, or simply playing, flower children, they aie among the most attractive we can ever hope to see. And they hold out to us, with love, the brightest, freshest, nicely spice-scented nosegay of the season.

The musicals slender connection with Twelfth Night is mainly the mistaken-identity situation, which develops after the shipwreck of siblings Viola and Sebastian, when each presumes the other lost at sea. Librettist Donald Driver and composer-lyricists Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar have masterfully shaped the situation to their own contemporary purpose, which is to prove that love is love regardless of the loved ones sex and given it a rich, rousing, extraordinary score. Duke Orsino, here become "THE FAMILY WAY" 12 45 Daily DEATH STRUGGLE Vince Edwards struggles vicious opponent, Romo Gorrara, in Columbia release, Hammerhead, suspense drama bowing Wednesday, Aug. 14, for citywide engagement. "GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER" "NO WAY TO 12 45 Dally TREAT A LADY" 'VrAtA: Universal Buys Lefferts Play been signed The Boat, a new play by to write Coni from 6 00 Adult Entertainment Sandy Dennis "THE FOX" CIr.

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