Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1980s. But such large expenditures are unlikely to be carried out in the long run, experts believe. Like Brezhnev's plans for the succession, his extravagant program for agriculture may be shelved by the victors in the battle for the vast power he Still commands. -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Bruce W. Nelan/Washington
...COMMERCIAL SUCCESS of La Cage Aux Folles guaranteed an American imitation. Blake Edwards' attempt--Victor Victoria, a light, romantic comedy set around a decadent 1930's Paris nightclub which featured acts by male impersonators--transcends the dubious spinoff genre Barely. Somehow Victor Victoria, which stars Julie Andrews pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, works; Blake Edwards has made another slick, funny film...
From the start an audience must realize that no Blake Edwards comedy could end with a woman leaving her man for her career, or especially for a gay friend. Not that Edwards obviously condemns homosexuality or the independence of a single woman, but he know-tows to a vital ingredient in any movie musical comedy: boy-gets-girl. Thus an otherwise fun movie reaches an unsatisfactory conclusion. Victoria must abandon her career and reveal herself in the club as a woman, while Toddy takes over her act. Contractual obligations and her relationship with Toddy are tossed aside, and Toddy...