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...soprano who is feeling neglected. "It's freezing in here," she shivers. (Singers hate air conditioning more than they hate other singers.) Ignoring the air-conditioning controls, Bing ceremoniously goes to the wall and turns the knob for the intercom system. "There," he purrs in his caramel-soft Viennese-British accent, "is that better?" "Yes," she says. "It is much warmer now." (Warm smile...
...black comedy in the style of Dr. Strangelove, a savage sneer at war and all it bloody works. But if Strangelove with cheery ferocity reminded its audiences that every cloud has a strontium lining. Emily in confused conclusion managers to suggest that every human value has a wormy caramel center...
...weekend of musical homage that amounted to a Milhaud retrospective (with performances of his Caramel Mou: Shimmy for Jazz Band and Singer, a string quartet, a ballet, 'Adame Miroir, and his one-act opera Medea), local critics rejoiced in "the new turn" Milhaud's futuristic Suite suggested. But to Milhaud himself the new turn was only a pleasant reminiscence of work he did 40 years ago. "Now that everyone else is doing these things," he said cheerlessly, "they think I am following their steps. That is part of the general misunderstanding a composer faces all his life...
...thing, and as the manager of a Nevada casino, he has plenty of business to do. One day, temptation (Suzanne Pleshette) comes slithering into his Eveless Eden. He resists. But after temptation comes responsibility (Claire Wilcox). He can't resist. How could any redblooded, blue-eyed, squarejawed, caramel-centered American male resist a darling little five-year-old girl abandoned by her heartless father in the lobby of a gambling casino; abandoned without a Mr. Goodbar to her name, without so much as a nickel for a Nab in her pretty little purple plastic pocketbook; abandoned in a lobby...
...first he seems a run-of-the-mill monster. "Should I give her one or not?" he asks himself in perplexity over whether to offer a caramel to the young ward of a friend. With petty but apparently motiveless malignancy, he hires some hooligans to humiliate one of his girl friends by smearing her gates with tar-a sign that she has lost her virtue...