The Plain Dealer from Cleveland, Ohio (2024)

April 30, 1972

Publication:

The Plain Dealeri

Location:

Cleveland, Ohio

Issue Date:

Sunday, April 30, 1972

Page:

304

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Glad you asked that! Ql've been told that Sen John Tunney got a laugh with one of the questions he threw at Richard Kleindienst while quizzing him on his qualifications to succeed Atty Gen John Mitchell What did he ask? Mrs Teresa Kent Wash A "Does your wife have a tele Vphone?" QWhen Marlon Brando got the part of "The Godfather" you wrote that it was great casting And that Brando would be rediscovered Do you still feel this way? Robert Columbus A Not entirely Though Brando was believable in the role my im pression was the makeup depart ment didn't do right by by stuffing plastic fittings inside his ceks to accentuate his jowls Vis ually superb Verbally absurd Mak ing it difficult to understand him despite the report that he dubbed the original dialogue over again "The Godfather" is a powerful mov ie which sustains its excitement and bloodletting from curtain to credits But the biggest larceny was not in the gangland script It was pulled by actor Al Pacino who plays the col lege educated war hero son Mi chael He stole the film and will be rewarded with the starring part in the sequel "Son of the Godfather" QHas Clifford Irving been signed by a record company to make an album out of his phony Howard Hughes book? Carlos Perez Co cUHf la A No The album "Will the Real Howard Hughes Please Stand Up?" is a Cliffhanger but it has nothing to do with Irving It's strictlv a libel proof spoof in which TV nightclub comic Dave Barry plays Hughes supported by scratchy throated comedienne Selma Dia mond and a cluster of other comedic characters The company waxing enthusiastic about their album is Double Shot Records Al heard that Danny Kaye took Vjhis Walter Mitty role so serious lyne once asked Dr Michael De Bakey if he could assist in a heart operation Did Garland New Haven Conn A Danny didn't But as an interest ed visitor (to the Methodist Hos pital Wing of the Brown ondren Bldg in Houston) he did don a doctor's sterile garment cap and face mask And held a heavy retrac tor while thrilling to the deft De Bakey hands at work QThey say Ricky Nelson's wife is a professional artist whose work hangs at the Metropolitan Is this Dottie St Louis A There are no Kris Nelsons hang ing in the Met yet But her primitives are so skillfully painted they are much sought after by other celebrities Including Luci Johnson Nugent and Jackie Onassis 91 understand it's now" Professor" Eugene McCarthy If so where what does the former senator teach? Nancy Seattle A Poetry At the University of Maryland Now bacheloring in Georgetown this course taught by the presidential hopeful is said to be one of the most popular at the university Actress Paulette Goddard and her late husband author Erich Remarque His sister was beheaded by the Nazis Paulette Goddard's late hus band writer Erich Maria Rem arque wasn't he a propaganda writer for the Mrs Rebecca Long Island NY A On the contrary he was rabidly anti Nazi Going back to the time they beheaded his beautiful 23 year old sister then sent the grief strick en brother a bill to "defray the cost of the execution" Miss Goddard who is Jewish was previously mar ried to Edgar James Charles Chaplin and Burgess Meredith QAny way of researching how long it took Handel to compose "The Charles Clyne Philadelphia A Twenty three days 2 We were surprised to see only a small white headstone over ie Murphy's grave during a re cent visit to Arlington Cemetery Since he was our most decorated hero of World War II doesn't he rate a more conspicuous monument? Betty Carey Waterbury Conn A "The next of kin has the choice of erecting a private monu ment" reports Metzler superin tendent of the national cemetery "or having a government marble upright headstone Mrs Murphy requested the government head stone erected at the gravesite" QHow did they get an actor of star stature like Burt Reynolds to risk ridicule by posing in the nude for Cosmopolitan? Dorothy St Louis A "Simply by asking" shrugs editor Helen Gurley Brown Send your questions to Hy Gardner "Glad You Asked That" care of The Plain Dealer PO Box 11748 Chicago III 60611 Mr Gardner will an swer as many questions as he can in his column but the volume of mail makes personal replies im possible ield Enterprises Inc (inotb rham' Imported Whisky from Canada's Oldest distiller BLENOfO CANADIAN iVPQPTf BOTTiEC IN 'J 3 A BY GC00EPHA7 Nothing so Rich Rare a Ta 1 1 VI JI PJ CttMthun I 48 THE PLAIN DEALER SUNDAY MAGAZINE.

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