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ON PERIOD MUSIC. I truly love the body of musical comedy of that period. The minute you hear the first line of the "Loveland" sequence song You're Gonna Love Tomorrow-" 'What will tomorrow bring,VThe pundits query"-it evokes an entire period. That's the kind...
For example: Hopper boasts that he can make "oh, six . . . eight . . . eighteen" girls in one night. The following scene shows the girls-burlesque queens, whores, coed groupies-entering Hopper's Taos. New Mexico ranch. kindly imported by Schiller and Carson. The reaction of one of Hopper's steady women is...
THE American bathroom, ever a target for European wits and soreheads, has a host of enthusiasts as well; none is more outspoken than Critic Edmund Wilson, who once said: "I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions ... in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have...
There you have an approximation of a newly imported British comedy, The Philanthropist. Playwright Christopher Hampton, 24, is witty, clever, debonair; he uses the English language with sly gusto and rare affection. He has given an impressive display of that affection in his fluently idiomatic adaptations of A Doll'...
Truffaut, however much we may love him, demonstrates the impossibility of our affection once and for all in his new film. He dashes not only the small hopes left to us by the other Doinel pictures, but also those allowed by Jules and Jim, Shoot the Piano Player and Mississippi...