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...urchin (Ricky Cordell) and his humanistic Mom (Madlyn Rhue). After a couple of weeks of tender care from Junior and loving from Mom, Kenner is ready to resume his mission. All that talk around the house about karma and reincarnation, however, has cramped his vindictive style. From bar to bordello, Kenner's search for the villains is stymied by long second thoughts on such weighty matters as bloody retribution, fatherhood and even marriage...
...harpies. Rosa reports an episode in which a prostitute knelt and screamed cock-a-doodle-doo as she splashed happily in the hot blood of a stranger who had just been ventilated. As for Calamity Jane, Wild Bill's putative paramour, she was once thrown out of a bordello "for being a low influence on the inmates." Money was a more reliable consolation. Apparently, most famous gunfighters, no matter which side of the law they were on, would do almost anything to get it. The James boys and the Younger brothers knocked over banks and trains; the Earps...
...sulks, pop takes up with a willowy tour guide, and mom settles down with a handsome French millionaire. Like all TV sitchcoms, How Sweet It Is! culminates in a stock comedy scene. This time it takes place in an Italian bordello, where too many kooks spoil the brothel...
Back in the days when Truman Capote wore bangs, he wrote a short story called House of Flowers about the ladies of a bordello on a Caribbean island. When he expanded it into a musical comedy in 1954, it fairly swarmed with talent-Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll sang, Geoffrey Holder danced, Balanchine worked on the choreography, Oliver Messel designed the sets, and Harold Arlen turned out a lilting, lyrical musical score. Nonetheless, House of Flowers faded fast...
...BALCONY (Caedmon). Jean Genet's decadence has enjoyed a worldwide vogue since the beginning of the decade; this Balcony view of the world shows why. Even minus the trappings of the bordello in which it takes place, the effect remains undiminished in vengeance and comic force. Read by a superlative cast including Pamela Brown, Patrick Magee, Cyril Cusack and a gifted English company...