Rex is leaving Broadway; 'echtually' it's 'bean' loverly
By Earl Wilson NEW YORK
"I shall
be coming back next year to told Broadway," Rex. Harrison of Engladde sand na on Da£fecent afternoon as o he sipped tonic water in his luxurious suite where he'd just packed his bags to leave Broadway.
"I love Broadway," he said. "I've bean on Broadway more echtually more than-I've bean in London. They don't treat me as a stranger here."
The certain Harrison mannerisms and enunciation such as bean and echtually and his repeating of questions "Well,
I · I — I don't know echtually" make him a delight to observe closeup.
Having finished" "In Praise of Love” with Julie Harris, the man we'll always think of as Professor 'iggins was flying to Paris to join his wife Elizabeth and would then go to his house and boat at Cap Ferrat, France.
"We shall lazy around there," he said. “We've been invited to the Moscow Film Festival. Elizabeth, for some reason, likes going to Russia." He said that with a laugh, since Elizabeth is from rich and conservative people. "Or we might go to Kashmir."
He stretched out a Kashmir travel ́folder. "But there is a play I want to do on Broadway with Jose Quintero. I cahn't tell you what it is. I don't want to bruit it about. Somebody else might do it."
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Harrison wants to return to Broadway because It's thriving. "This is the best season you've had. Broadway is getting exactly like it used to be."
... Poor
Julie Harris, he said, was echtually one of the favorite actresses he'd ever worked with. "Andrey Hepburn, oh yes, very much. Oh God yes, and Liz Taylor Liz stuck there in Leningrad with amoebic dysenterý .... and Richard Burton would be tops Yes, Liz, Audrey, Richard and Julie .. my favorites."
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Rex Harrison
"Of course it's acting, I'd say to that. It's a bloody lot harder playing yourself."
It's his belief that audiences are influenced by a couple of good "laughers" or "leaders" and that if you have two good laughers you have a happy audience.
"You should plant two good laughers there every night.“
"It's too expensive."
He looked back with sadness on "Staircase" when he and Richard Burton did a homosexual story. “We were eyeball to eyeball for weeks. It wasn't well received. It was way ahead of the Gay Liberation movement. It would be timely now."
Reginald Harrison Reginald as in Reggie now 67, has a TV series, a
one-man show and another
picture in mind, none of which he could discuss, definite that he wants to but the impression was
do a lot more work.
His son Noel Harrison, the singer and guitarist who played cafes, has, however, decided that
Did he represent any "show biz was too much school of acting? for him" and has a 300acre farm in Nova Scotia. He does a TV show once a week. "He has decided to lead a complete new life. He's in great shape."
"The school of natural ism,” he nodded. "You at tempt to behave exactly as you would in life. I sprang from a long line of drawing room actors. I may be the only one left."
This visitor said one director believed that &
ng, that playing somejody else is acting,
"How old is he now?" Sexy Rexy looked bewildered Lord... he's 36
Where's Homer, the famous basset hound?
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on the stage with me. Old Homer's waiting for me over there. How old is Homer? He must be way up to 13. I hope he lasts 1 till P see him" Rex stayed es with the téme water!
Oh, Lord yes, yes, old Homer. Got a lot of publicity when Rex won the Oscar.
“Did everything but go
never take anything," he said, “before I do the show."
Ringo Starr and George Harrison strange as it seems plan to give up England for the U.S. believing they'd save on taxes here... Reflections disco, “home of the Hustle dance," brags it teaches 50 to Hustle every night. Norm Crosby and Robert Goulet play jokes on each other. Crosby reveal ed at the Stage that once while on stage he heard a Niagara Falls sound, almost drowning out his act. Goulet in his dressing room had flushed the toilet and held a mike close sending the sound into the audience. Crosby wants to get even.
Roadside sign in Fort Wayne: "Watch Your Curves, Not Hers" David Begelman, president of Columbia Pictures, will marry Cladyce Rudin of L.A. this month.
The site of the famous
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Copacabana nightclub on East 60th St. has been leased to ex-producer Frank Cranet, senior vice president of Great Adven, ture,, who has plans be, can't yet divulge. He did not acquire the name Copacabana, which was sold to another group, so it will not become a new Copacabana as had been anticipated. Grand said, "I have several ideas."
CBS passed the word quietly that Joey Heatherton, who'll take over Cher's TV summer slot this month, isn't to wear those skimpy Cher-type dresses dresses... Paul Newman
signed his check at Gian Marino's and an eager diner asked if she could have the signature Xeroxed (No, she couldn't) Actress Stockard Channing didn't get a fortune to be didn't get a fortune to be in Mike Nichols' "The Forin Mike Nichols' "The Fortune"; just the same $20,000 he once paid another unknown Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate.”
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Deborah Kerr's next show, "Souvenir," was coshow, "Souvenir," was coauthored by her husband Peter Viertel and George Axelrod ... At Sirocco's:
comers
Sidney Poitier and the Harry Belafontes, with Harry dancing with all comers... Ernest Borgnine notes that even since he's trimmed his figure he's been looking for thin roles" and getting only "fat roles."
Victor Borge ordered a round-trip airline ticket and the clerk asked, "Where to?” “Why,” Victor said, "back here, of course.”
Unions are pretty much alike the world over. In fact; the resemblance is striking. Arnold Glasow.
"History is always repeating itself. Each country is ready to go into a bloody war to prove how much it wants peace."
Nonnee Coan writes from Houston that he used to live in a town so small that the only way you could start the ambulance was by saying, “Giddyap." Typewriter Games: "The girl was stabbed in the suburbs... He kissed her passionately upon her reappearance She sat down upon her being asked asked... Headline: 'Girl
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Shot in Depot Shot in Depot Bullet Is in Her Yet.'
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