Word: bobo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, aggression by the male model was generally viewed as appropriate and approved by both the boys ("A1's a good socker, he beat up Bobo. I want to sock like A1.") and the girls ("That man is a strong fighter. He punched and punched, and he could hit Bobo right down to the floor and if Bobo got up he said, 'Punch your nose.' He's a good fighter like Daddy...
...Bobo. Peter Sellers, his fans may be happy to learn, is alive and living in Barcelona. There he sallies forth as a singing bullfighter impaled on the horns of a dilemma. A fop as a matador, a flop as a troubadour, he has decided to leave the corrida and seek a stage career. Down to his last peseta, he desperately accepts a dare by the local impresario (Adolfo Celi), who agrees to book him into his theater on one condition: Sellers must seduce Britt Eklund (Mrs. Peter Sellers offstage), an ice-cold big-league golddigger whose favorite phrase is "Mine...
Around town, Sellers earns the sudden sobriquet of "Bobo"-Spanish for fool. After all, has not Eklund newly milked one victim for a luxurious pad and bilked another out of a Maserati...
...bore dom, Eklund endures him, then tolerates him, and at last-her cool melted by champagne-falls in love. The morning after Sellers wins his wager, he confesses all in an orgy of guilt. Raging, the seducee marches him at shotgun point to a bathtub full of cerulean stain. Bobo is last seen in a bullfight poster proclaiming his indisputably unique credentials as "The Singing Blue Matador...
...Bobo is another movie in which Peter Sellers' comic gifts lose out to Technicolor. A comedian is not an object to be photographed from all angles like a fancy be-ribboned package. That fact escapes Robert Parrish, the director. Since he can't quite make Sellers a thing of beauty, he places him in a whirl of chi-chi clothes and Spanish opulence, occasionally adding a flamenco dancer. In case Sellers still sticks out as a funny man, Parrish drowns him in Exodus sound...