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Charlie's Circus. Ursula Andress, who is cast as the world's wealthiest spy, reports that the script changes have left her "in a daze." Woody Allen, who may be characterized in the film as the illegitimate offspring of a brief encounter between Sir James and Mata Hari, was originally a heavy who was assigned to destroy everyone in the world over 4 ft. 9 in. Sellers has shot a scene in which an Aqua-Lunged SMERSH girl lurks in his bathtub only to get kissed to death. He likes that part (though now it is edited out), but he is protesting the scene that calls for him to be flushed down the toilet.
The film may meet a similar commodious end. Columbia executives are already concerned about all the high-priced visiting stars. "They keep saying 'Stop it—no more people,' " chuckles Charlie Feldman. "But I tell them, 'It's a circus. I can't stop it now.' "