Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only has Prince brought the form of the musical up-to-date with Company, but he has done the same thing with its subject matter. George Furth's book takes us on a tour with 38-year-old bachelor Robert (Dean Jones) of his (unhappily) married friends in an attempt to find out why "love is what it's all about." It is one of the only musical books I know of that does not, for one second, pander to the audience. There are no quick solutions, no easy jokes, no sentimentality of any kind. No one knows...
Rationed Space. Charles Wilp, 37, a Düsseldorf photographer turned adman, occupies a niche of his own in Europe's new advertising era. A bachelor, Wilp looks like a tired paparazzo and invariably dresses in canary-yellow astronaut overalls, but his flair for converting unknown products into household names is legendary. To popularize a soft drink called Afri-Cola, for example, he photographed four nude black girls through a sheet of ice. Isenbeck-Pils, a virtually unknown Ruhr beer, increased its sales by 29% after Wilp's campaign treated it as the "in" brand...
...virtue of its compositional imbalance, not its overtly ironic content. Particularly in interior scenes, Antonioni recognizes that destruction of form within a Panavision screen can be used thematically, for example to warn against America's depersonalized computer jungles. In this he becomes the thinking man's Frank Tashlin ( Bachelor Flat, The Girl Can't Help It ), who also revels in the natural excess of the wide screen and applies it to similar subjects: mechanical courtship, distortion of props, vistas of commercialized cityscapes. Antonioni's photographic approach to American life-styles goes a long way toward explaining why the French like...
...Grover, N.A. is the serene culmination of a misspent life: an unhappy childhood, five suicide attempts before he was 21 and a long downhill slide to alcoholism. Along this anguished course, Grover somehow earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from George Washington University. That and a therapeutic experience with Alcoholics Anonymous set him to thinking about applying A.A.'s principles to other fields of human distress...
...bowl of stale potato salad. But he wears his troubles like epaulettes, and has he got troubles. He is the owner of a Midwest dry-cleaning establishment, and his wife has just run off with his partner who happens to be his brother. Seeking solace from his New York bachelor son Norman (Martin Huston), Jacobi arrives unannounced (if anything Jacobi does can properly be called unannounced) and finds the boy nonchalantly involved in a homosexual liaison with a friend named Garson (Walter Willison...