On Location: OK Everybody Out of the Pool

The swimming pool is empty except for a man who is drifting around in an inner tube, a martini glass in his hand, a party hat on his head. He is stoned. Into the pool plop Neddy Merrill and a bikinied blonde. They shake the man awake. "Know what day this is?" The drunk couldn't care less. Neddy and the blonde swim the length of the pool, get out and move on. Neddy Merrill is Burt Lancaster, the girl is Starlet Janet Landgard, and the scene is from a movie called The Swimmer, now being filmed in Connecticut's Fairfield...

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