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...Secret of My Success. "Believe in people, have faith in mankind, and never search for evil," says James Booth. That is his secret, drilled into him by the monstrous little eccentric he calls Mother (Amy Dolby). Booth plays a bungling British constable who sees all women as embodiments of virtue and makes his fortune by mistake. His principal errors involve: Stella Stevens, as a slatternly village dressmaker who tricks him into entombing her murdered husband; Honor Blackman, irrationally seductive as a mad neo-Nazi entomologist who breeds spiders the size of St. Bernards; and Shirley Jones, as a revolutionist...
...publish that," the sallow-faced little man told the New York Times reporter, "I'll come and get you and I'll kill you. I may kill you right now." Wedged into a narrow booth in a dingy luncheonette in Queens, Timesman McCandlish Phillips watched the man, who had been trained in exotic varieties of violence, toy with a table knife. Finally, Phillips suggested that they go outside, where "I figured I had more maneuverability." Phillips got away as soon as he could and went back to the city room to write his story...
Towards the end of Soft Skin, Pierre must make an extremely essential phone call. Just at that point a silly looking blond captures the phone booth and Pierre waits impatiently while she completes her call. Director Francois Truffaut has chosen a device so obviously contrived that your entire build-up of tension gets stopped in its tracks...
...should certainly prove more costly. The maximum penalty under the law is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine-which may possibly preclude draft-card burning from rivaling panty raids or telephone-booth packing as a post-adolescent craze...
...Left" to take a principled stand against communism. Mr. Howe made this the point of much of his discussion. That he believes we ought to move toward withdrawal in Vietnam does not make him happy that the Viet Cong will prevail, as it apparently does Mr. Booth and certainly Mr. Maher, Mr. Howe was most critical of any equation of American politics with the lack of basic political freedom in totalitarian countries. Sanford V. Levinson Tutor, Dunster House