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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1981.

Patricia Lewis

new Caron-down among the beatniks

fall of Me Nmbitst and s Chewinters with the

FORGET her in "Fanny." Forget "Gigi." Africa centred on the ring and

Forget "Lili." Forget the Leslie Caron weekly

Baluba Tribisinen. He will be you first thought of with her tomboy assisted by an African waiter tumblings. There's a new Caron on the way--and this one is a swinger.

Soon you will see her as part "Beyond the Fringe," the club of the American heatnik serie. 15 founded On the rock-fort primise that people will pay Thus Alcin-ge

Bolami Hemiel

to money

heur ism had its beginnings in the insults. wine-bais une ari skops of Son Francisco's North Black__filed

WILFUL

""Course

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you

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al

who will be held responsible i

erything gne: wrong"

Fortunately for Mr Cook and Iata asselatus this sori of humor which washes over that Transatlantic satirist Mort Sahl like condensed milk-has tapped the funny boneg of your island's malvinista. He will ck well.

FILMING? IT'S ALL FUN

But Hayley

at 15 has

some problems

NOR a world-famous, fluanci-.

ally secure 15-year-old, Hayley Ms had a toi on her

lt,

First, there was the news that she was replacing Sandra Dee in the Hollywood film of "The Chalk Garden."

"

"Whoops!" heller

she exclaimed, gold curls jumping about her pretty pug face.

know that was floating around, but I didn't know the farally" - {111' the formidable ve- pronged John Mills family) -"had given their O.K.

As I stumbled over the half- late fluor towards the street, he shouted nitur 110 down The stakes; "...and remember Be basement is Bomb-propt-in the event of un Attack that's where the Cabinet has agreed to meel.“

I always knew there was a

for Somewhere, establishmentarianism" Jongest word in the English language.

and found its chief spoksihan somehow," he says, with the

Jak inchgent ale of in the uneasy novels of

one about to Kerouar.

die für a cause.

you say nything really rcle In Dus country, words are whispered in ears and

And yourself arrested for indecency." One of them, The Subler-

Bis brown been made intu

flickered eyes rbs," has a Um. It tells how a young mournfully over a soaring red use, writer (George Peppard) be- graph showing the daily intake comes at first fazeinated, then of members. inextricably Involver iri the "Over 5,000," he said wearily, drifting, discursive, drunken while I wandered how many had night-life of the poets, painters, joined from a snobbish and musicians who make up the art-in-on-this-cult" motive. bratniks,

And it is as Murd the beautiful, wilful, passionate, and free-loving girl be fulla for hal Leslie Caron grabs the serves acting chance of her care.r.

Her hair ghtened, dressed in sweaters, a kimono or leis, she brawls and boozes her way from "pad" to "pad" unt??, naturally. riality hatters her self-decep- tion.

Mr Cook --and 5,000 funny bones

TXE have just seen the

Wopening of Britain's

first and, I suspect, last- satirical nightclub, "The Establishment."

Master-minded by Peter Conk, the tall, casual Iconoclast from

Bomb-proof

"Hop we've nitracted the sort of members who'll be small enough to be stacked in tiers. Inlways wanted to be my own bass, but now I'd like nothing better than to work for a furge Arm for £25 a week." Coak added.

Mr Wagner chooses

freedom

"ets- the

TR ROBERT WAGNER

Ma star with the rare

tidy Permutation of features, excellent manners, and uncomplicated charm- is currently rating a triple

"ex."

Now 31, he is by his own admission an ex-teenage kloit.

temporary ex-patriate; and, f the cookie crumbles to form, be will eventually become the ex- husband of Natalie Wood.

Cook's attitude is nelle biase nor smugly over-optimistic. The Establishment, with its young. witty, irreverent and, at times, entusiastically

amateurish team, is-by its near-relationship to the fanaticaliy - favoured "Beyond the Fringe" assured of a standing-rovin-only success, Surrounding Peler are nine similiarly talented, le-thinking people augmented by Dudley Moore, Jonathan Muller, and Day" Alan Bennett on the late-shift "Alan Bennett is really behind the catering-he's in favour of didactic cooking." smiled Peter. "And Dudley Moare perhaps the greatest jazz mind of the century...

"Jonathan Miller will, ak course, feature his talks of old

QUESTION

HAYLEY MILLS: HOW

TO GROW OLD

whole meteorle career date as fun.

to

"I suppose it's becaise we'll be in America anyhow Duddy's going to do Ross un Broadway, you know."

Lastly, there was the ever-

"Now I'm 15 I don't have nagging problem of how as to At in lessons between the hottest Juvenile actress in acting Any more, But show hulness-to grow older wouldn't mind having a tutor without losing face at the so I could learn French, bux office.

Halian, German, and—just in

"I should sit down one day case Russian. Then I'd be able 10 Alm in other up a free and deelde what I'm going to do with myself," she languages, wouldn't I?

tel. "I'd fice to do some- "You see," she said, "a boy thing terribly dramatic for a really needs to be clever at ellonge and die on the edge of school. I mean, it's sort of a elit at the end.

twerps, all right t **My

Disney

contract has isn't it... *** arc another three years to ron, 1 was then I decided that but I'd adore to do something the only problem in

how

Hayley

in the bestre so long as Mills's golden future will be euld be fun.".

make time away 10% clear that the younger from work to spend all the

considers Miss Mills

her money she will surely earn.

class today. The reason is they had a chance to break away from the studio system before I

In London between engage meists - Zanuck's "The Longest did.

and Columbia's "The War Lover" Mr Wagner devoted some of his leisure time to discussing the joys of break ing louse from a studio contract. "You know, there were three guys came out of the bly studios at the same time," he said. "Tony

"When I was offered a con- tract by Twentieth Century-Fox it seemed like I was in a pretty advantageous position. But then I realised I wasn't.

"You see, one gets suppressed Curtis, Rock Hudson, by producers who keep thinking and me and I'm not in their of you as a type. I was a big

teenage dol but one has to progress, to develop, to grow with one's audience. You've got to move in this business, you've You need got to take chances. the emotion of stepping out on your own and making your own mistakes."

He sighed into his Scotch. "I realise now on actor, only gets kleks out of doing something he wants to do."

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