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Ross Hunter produced The Thrill of It All, and it has all those little Ross Hunter touches-coy tingles over connubial sex ("Is it your wife's birthday tonight?" "No, but it may be somebody's"), wise-apple kiddies ("Daddy, Mommy's down in the cellar with a man"). But one thrill is missing: the will-she-or-won't-she question that so breathlessly sustained the previous assaults on Doris' virginity in the recent sudsy cycle of Day comedies. Now that Doris has given in and traded maidenhood for motherhood, life is going...
...dream of confused chivalry becomes a possibility. Not knowing what to do with his money (he is intimidated by waiters, salesmen and humanity in general), he decides to use it to net Miranda-like a butterfly. He buys a secluded house with a hidden room in the cellar. One night he lies in wait for Miranda, chloroforms her and whisks her off to his cellar to be his "guest...
Bent Basement. The Rent Act of 1957 virtually lifted all controls and enabled Rachman to shoehorn tenants into his flats at whatever prices the traffic would bear. He also showed talent for "bending the basement," that is, converting cellar space into cribs for prostitutes or into nightclubs. The 1959 Street Offences Act, which drove prostitutes off London pavements, brought him another windfall, for the girls would pay more for rooms than even the desperate West Indians. In one house, seven prostitutes were charged $10 per day, payable every day at noon, or $25,000 annually, for a house valued...
...pros, go to the auto races, chip in to buy a boat and take the kids sailing or fishing. The expansion to ten-team leagues gave attendance a hypo. But the boosters can hardly be expected to stay all steamed up when their heroes are glued in the cellar and the pennant races settle into that familiar groove. Last week the Yankees led the American League by 5½games, and the Dodgers were on top of the National League...
...Comforts. Meantime, the boys settled down in the embassy's dank cellar. To keep from getting on each other's nerves, they have partitioned it into two separate living quarters, installed a makeshift bathroom and two kitchenettes with refrigerators, rewired the lighting, painted the walls, added furniture, even acquired television sets. They do calisthenics to keep in shape, and to while away the days, they paint, write letters and read (translations of Sherwood Anderson, Rousseau, Hemingway). The Paraguayan ambassador gives them money for food and clothes; Juan picks up a little extra from a flower shop investment down...