TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1963)

For Liz, at thirty-one. to read and hear such words spoken by the man she wants to marry must be indeed a bitter pill to swallow. For, up to now, the fact that she's been the world's most beautiful woman — and consequently promised each of her four husbands and all of her other admirers a kind of superhuman romantic experience (what man could say "No" to that?) — has been the one thing she could depend upon. But today, echoing Richard's poohpoohing of her physical attractiveness, some reviewers of "Cleopatra" have gone out of their way to question her beauty. Sheilah Graham wrote: "In most ofthe scenes she is beautiful, but in some of them she is fat. and in others unexpectedly homely." Archer Winsten observed: "She is no longer the most beautiful woman . . . [she] is over the edge." What Liz never learned The irony of the situation is that Liz, who, when she stole Eddie from Debbie, excused her action by saying, "I'm not taking anything away from Debbie Reynolds — because she never really had it," may today — with four husbands behind her — be in the position of seeing some younger, more attractive and less jaded woman take Richard away from her. For Liz still has the technique for stealing a man, but she may lack the warmth, the freshness and the ability to really love that are necessary to keep him. It is these very qualities which Liz lacks that have enabled Carol Burnett to win and wed her man. While Liz's incredibly beautiful blue-violet eyes seem tired (they have seen 50 much), Carol's eyes (with small, dark, piercing irises) are ever young, ever curious, and JACK GING (Continued from page 40) Jack Ging, an only child, had lost his father at an early age. At moments like this, he knew that he never would stop missing him. The bigger the triumph, the bigger the ache. "A lot of fathers came down to practice," Jack remembers, "and after the game, you know, they came down to the locker room. Well, my mother was very proud of me, because all her friends were saying, 'Isn't he wonderful?' You know — she was proud, but she didn't understand football." Feeling left out was an old story. Earlier in life, especially when he first discovered what doors his athletic prowess opened for him — especially doors of friendship — he had permitted himself a hopeful notion that he no longer would be the outsider, the stranger. The lonely hero "For instance," he says, "I remember the night against Fairview. I hope this won't be misunderstood, because it look innocently out at the challenging world, as startled as creation's first fawn. She is incapable of just slamming shut the book on one part of her life and guiltlessly opening another. She says — and she means it — "I will never intentionally hurt anybody. . . . You don't have to be a rotten rat. . . . What's so awful about this. I'd hate to hurt one child — but eight!" She is miserable about the heartwrenching agony her marriage to Joe has caused for his eight children. And the memory7 of the collapse of her first and only other marriage, to Don Saroyan, gives her no peace. "The awareness of being divorced gives no woman pleasure," she says. "No matter what it may produce for your future happiness, and no matter the character of the husband, divorce symbolizes failure, not victory." Although Carol can never forget the past, at thirty her life is just beginning. She is carrying her first baby, Joe's child, close to her heart, and wants to have more "kids as often as possible." She adds with a wide grin — and when she says it, she is very pretty: "I'd like to have a big family. There's nothing I like better than mayhem and confusion. You know — it's fun to organize this sort of confusion." "Fun" — that's the key word. Fun is what Carol is able to have and to feel, while for Liz the word — and the excitement and expectation supporting the word — seems to have disappeared from her vocabulary — and her life — a long, long, long time ago. — Jim Hoffman "Elizabeth Taylor in London," CBS-TV. Sun., Oct. 6th. 10 P.M. EDT. Carol's specials are also on CBS-TV; she sings for Decca, and stars in Paramount's "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" sounds conceited even though it's true. But I don't mean it that way. "Our victory over Fairview was the biggest thing that ever happened in Woods County. We're down in the dressing rooms and the guys on the team had played a good game, but they would be the first to admit they hadn't done anything out of the ordinary. I'm not downgrading them, you understand. It's just that I was the one who'd scored the six touchdowns. But their fathers were down there with them, as you know, and they were sharing it with them. "Well, it was a great moment," Jack goes on doggedly. "Alva finally beating Fairview. and I was the one that beat 'em. And I didn't have anybody. I had lots of people saying. 'Nice game,' but I didn't have anybody. \ou see, the point is, Mother knowing I scored six touchdowns, she didn't know what that means. My father would have really known. He would have understood what scoring six touchdowns was." All his life, all Jack Ging ever wanted was love. He first began to be shortchanged — or feel shortchanged — when his father went off to the wars. His father served in the Signal Corps. He strung lines in Italy, and fought with Patton's Army near The Queen of Hollywood tears the town apart in her national n bestseller THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT ■ Photoplay's columnist promised to tell all. She has — and her smash hit bestseller is the wildest surprise of the year. Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Doris Day, Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley, and Grace Kelly are among the cast of hundreds. 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