"That man doesn't look like me at all!" snapped Katharine Hepburn, 66, dismissing her double from the sets of Olly Olly Oxen Free. A family-style adventure story in which she plays an eccentric lady junk dealer, the film has her working with Movie Novices Kevin Mc-Kenzie and Dennis Dimster, both eleven, an English sheep dog named Obie and a 70-ft. gas-filled balloon. Miffed by the idea of a male stand-in for the action scenes, she has also been doing her own acrobatics, which have included dangling 100 ft. above ground from the balloon's anchor. In between scenes, she has even found time to pose for a cast picture by an old friend: Susie Tracy, 44, daughter of Kate's longtime leading man Spencer Tracy.

That beauty in the chic safari hat and Paris finery is Actress Ursula Andress, 40, on location in Rhodesia, for her new film Safari Express. A comedy spoof of 1950s jungle pictures, the movie shows Ursula as a geologist's assistant who karate-chops her way back to civilization while mussing nary a hair. On the screen, that is. "I worked like hell," protests the actress. "All that fighting! I think I am going to send them a bill as a stunt woman." After similar exertions last year in a sister film (African Express), Andress just might fall victim to superwoman typecasting. "The producer casts me the way he wants to see me," says Ursula. Besides, she laughs, "I am a superwoman."

The long fall of Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays finally concluded in a whimper. Charged last May with using his office payroll to keep Elizabeth Ray, 33, as his mistress, the 14-term Democrat had lost his House Administration Committee chairmanship, was hospitalized in June after an overdose of drugs, and in August announced he would not run for reelection. Last week the Congressman completed his slide down Capitol Hill with a terse, one-sentence letter of resignation. Hays' departure will spare him public examination by the House Ethics Committee, which immediately dropped its probe into how Ray earned her $14,000 salary, but he still faces legal problems over the matter from a grand jury probe and a Justice Department investigation. As for Liz, she insisted that she never would have gone public with her relationship with Hays had she known it "would mushroom into such a gigantic thing."

"We're kind of alike, and I think something is really there between us," purred Faye Dunaway, 35, considering her newest costar. Teamed with Hollywood Veteran Bette Davis, 68, Faye plays the title role in Sister Aimee, a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on the life of California Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. Davis, who unsuccessfully sought a Sister Aimee movie role some three decades ago, belatedly settled for the part of McPherson's domineering mother on the mid-November TV show. No hard feelings, though. "Good God, Bette's been a star since she was 17, so she's far beyond that kind of professional jealousy," observed Dunaway. "She was very generous and warm to me."

There were dog-eared screen magazines, antique baseball cards, some Beatles T shirts--and one genuine prewar space hero at New York's Second Annual Nostalgia Convention. Buster Crabbe, better known as fearless Flash Gordon since he filmed the 40 or so movie-serial episodes in the 1930s, was the top attraction at the three-day gathering of memorabilia hounds. A taut-looking 68 and the author of a new physical-fitness book called Energistics, Crabbe now pushes prefabricated swimming pools in Arizona, but he would not mind getting back into the flicks. Yet today, he says, "I'd rather play a bad guy than a hero--it would be more of a challenge." Though his Flash Gordon series still survives in TV reruns, Crabbe never bothers tuning in on his old star trips with Dale Arden, Dr. Zarkov and mean Emperor Ming. "I don't have to," he says, flaunting his own credentials as a nostalgia buff. "I have the whole series at home. I can watch them whenever I want to."

A British longshoreman blew 192 smoke rings from a single cigarette puff. A civil servant played his accordion nonstop for 26 hours and 20 minutes. One 15-year-old gulped down 19 pickled onions in two minutes. They were all contestants in Cosmorama, a Screwball Olympics held in Lingfield, England, where the equivalent of a gold was winning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. The show's Bruce Jenner was Tory Roy Hatter, 25, vice chairman of the Young Conservatives and new holder of the world record for nonstop political speeches--29 hr. 12 min. 30 sec. of peroration on codfishing, women's rights and other matters. "Like most politicians," gasped Hatter after his champion performance, "I like to get my name in print." Said a Guinness spokesman sagely: "Mr. Hatter should go far in his chosen career."

One slightly spaced-out contestant claimed he had an invisible dog, then paraded across the stage with only a leash in his hand. Apart from that, more than 450 pooch owners turned up in Atlanta last week to audition their dogs for a role in Burt Reynolds' next movie, Smokey and the Bandit. The judge was Burt himself, who will play the bandit opposite Sally Field as a hitchhiker and Jackie Gleason as a Texas sheriff who's trying to track him down. Burt's choice as the canine co-star was a two-year-old basset hound named Happy: "I picked the one that looked best in the bathing-suit contest. He was also the most congenial." How's that again, Burt? "I didn't think ego would be a problem in our working together," Reynolds explained. "His legs are shorter than mine--and no one's legs are shorter than mine."

Fashion freaks will soon see her in some fancy Vogue photographs by Richard Avedon. TV viewers, however, will catch Actress Deborah Raffin with her hair down and plastered top-to-toe in Mississippi mud. Raffin's dive was all for the sake of Nightmare in Badham County, a TV movie in which she plays a prison-farm escapee on the run through the swamps. Raffin, 23, who last starred in a Hollywood turkey overgenerously titled Once Is Not Enough, says the gooey assignment was "the best role" she had ever been offered: "It gave me a chance, I hope, to show some depth and emotion." And the mud? "It was worth it."

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