Word: alda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pussycat (Diana Sands) is a hellcat, a down-to-dirt prostitute with a tongue of brass. The owl (Alan Alda) is more of a penguin with a hotfoot, a bookstore clerk whose bookish dignity is destined to be bruised beyond repair. As figments of their own imaginations, they conceive of themselves, respectively, as a model and a writer...
With the loneliness of a long-distance voyeur, Alda has been spying on Sands's pay-and-playtimes through binoculars. His priggish rectitude makes him inform her landlord. Thrown out of her apartment (the setting is San Francisco), she storms into his. After that, they fight, kiss, fight, split up, fight, make up, and fight. The stage, like the plot, might seem bare except that each lover introduces the other to a secret love. He is seduced by his body, she is ravished by her mind. Act III is devoted to a hilarious suicide pact in which despair gets...
...topman cliché: "You're all alone, Sammy Glick." As Sammy, Steve Lawrence moves with the wary savage grace of a jungle cat, and when he claws, he claws. Bernice Massi, the banker's daughter Sammy marries, matches him in velvety ferocity. In a subplot romance, Robert Alda and Sally Ann Howes seem to be going through motions rather than emotions. The two best songs in the score are sexy: A Room Without Windows ("a room without doors") and The Friendliest Thing ("two people can do"). Too many of the lyrics sound like alliances between words that should...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Lauren Bacall, Walter Matthau and Robert Alda in "A Dozen Deadly Roses." Color...