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So cordial has the West's reception been to the New Wave Czech films that the comrades have agreed to send along at least one of the ingredients, a blonde, blue-eyed Olinka Berova, 21. La Berova, a former dancer who has made eleven films at home, was snapped up by British Director Cliff Owen for a lead in a movie called The Vengeance of She, will be the first actress from Eastern Europe to toil in a capitalist movie. She seems to know the fundamentals. After expressing her affection for London by embracing the miniskirt, she flew to the film location in Monaco, embraced even less on a decadent, bourgeois beach.
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"Provided it's put through a mincing machine and well seasoned, it's very palatable, almost like beef. We have often served it in our home to guests and noted their amazement when they were told, after eating it, that it was elephant meat." No mere prankish host, Patrick Hemingway, 39, Papa's second son and a trainer of game wardens at Tanzania's College of African Wildlife Management, disclosed that he is trying all sorts of canape capers, hopes to thin overproductive herds and raise cash for African wildlife conservation by exporting canned game. "There is a potential market in America for the novelty alone," said Pat. As a matter of fact, he added, "we are informed that tinned tiger meat is now available in some American supermarkets."
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Accustomed as she is to having her picture taken, these photos nevertheless "had no aim except that of arousing the morbid curiosity of the public," complained Brigitte Bardot, 32, in a suit co-filed with Husband Giinter Sachs, 34, against Playmen, a grotesque new Italian caricature of Playboy. The magazine garnished its second issue with a five-picture layout of a topless BB, looking mighty like a senior citizen, sunbathing in Rome with her totally in-the-skin husband, unaware that a paparazzo had, in Brigitte's words, "cut a hole in the dense vegetation surrounding the swimming pool and villa." The legendarily pneumatic Bardot had more than invasion of privacy to worry about. Commented Milan's disillusioned Corriere della Sera: "One could almost fear that the nudity of Brigitte, triumphant in innumerable films, belongs to a stand-in."