Word: bordello
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...Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The words but never the actions are raw in this folksy, affectionate and hilarious musical about the closing of a bordello...
...storyteller of no mean skill, Larry L. King, an accomplished journalist who wrote a compact account of the actual facts underlying Whorehouse after they occurred. To tell it as it is in the show, a rural community, Gilbert, has long tolerated, secretly relished, and certainly patronized a venerable bordello run in a rectitudinous fashion that would be the envy of most private-school headmasters today. Governors, Senators and mayors unwind from the cares of office in the chambers of the Chicken Ranch, as the place is known from a Depression custom in which local farmers traded live fowl...
Guccione has his office in an expensively tacky off-Fifth Avenue mansion in New York City, full of mirrored walls, oversized candelabra and a gilded piano that Liberace might envy. The furnishings look as if they came intact from a Neapolitan bordello, but they actually came from Judy Garland's estate, as did the house. Guccione, in well-coiffed hair, is obviously more concerned with his own appearance than his apartment's: he wears a shirt open to his hairy chest, against which bobble necklaces of large gold medallions. No one believed him seven years ago when...
...McDowell to play Caligula, Peter O'Toole for the diseased Emperor Tiberius and John Gielgud for the aristocratic Nerva. He then set about constructing half of ancient Rome: a mile-long facsimile of a 1st century street, a 100-yd.-long stadium, and a 175-ft.-long floating bordello, encrusted with gold leaf, where the wives of Roman Senators were forced into prostitution to fill Caligula's treasury. "We've got to find a museum for the boat!" Guccione exclaims. "It's so beautiful!" As for Vidal's criticisms . . . well, he must be talking about...
...very good actress," a goal for which she is almost frighteningly well endowed. What hooked her on acting as a career was the movie Taxi Driver (TIME, Feb. 16), a florid melodrama of Manhattan's streets that is mostly memorable for Jodie's portrayal, as to the bordello born, of the trick-wise twelve-year-old whore...