Movies: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot will go onto film as soon as Peter O’Toole finishes impersonating Lawrence of Arabia (who was a secret Irishman, too). The setting will be Ireland; Jose Ferrer, Pozzo; Jack MacGowran, Lucky; Kenneth Griffith, Estragon. . . . Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last Year at Marienbad) has taken up filmmaking in a big way. He has just finished The Immortal, which he wrote, directed, and filmed in Turkey, a movie, he says, that breaks “all academic rules.” Then there’s to be another, filmed in Japan and called She Died in France. … It turns out that one of the actors the late Jerry Wald had considered for the part of Leopold Bloom in the now shelved Ulysses was Peter Sellers.
Incidental: Emulation, emulation. Variety reports that Ed Sloan’s nightclub in Minneapolis, Davy Jones’ Locker, is having trouble with customers who model their behavior on “what has occurred at some eastern parties this summer.” The Locker sports a swimming pool in which aquatic chorines glide, but recently the guests have taken to throwing themselves into it fully clothed.
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