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...Vodka Chaser. The film that made him famous was 1959's Room at the Top, in which he affected a pudding-thick Yorkshire inflection. In Summer and Smoke he purred in decayed Southern tones, in Wild Side he was a drawl-in' no-good Texas bum, and in Butterfield 8 he was a pale Yalie. This sort of variety is what he likes. "I refuse," he says with a flip of the wrist, "to be myself in films. It's been a long time since I've used my normal voice...
...play is a prolonged joke on the theme of seduction. Tolen, a full-time girl chaser who "just isn't satisfied unless he has had it for five hours a day," shares a house with Colin, a bumbling schoolteacher who is desperate for sexual experience, and Tom, an imp whose chief delight lies in tormenting the other...
...follows the current fad among Italian films of merciless misogyny. The first half is wildly funny, the second half movingly pathetic. These two virtues add up to a fault: after farce, pathos makes a bitter chaser...
...surrounding central Viet Nam. Although, unlike his brothers, Can has never been abroad, did not go to a university, and runs his fiefdom like an old warlord, the war in the central highlands is going far bet ter than anywhere else in South Viet Nam. An inveterate ao-dai chaser, Can has incurred Mme. Nhu's wrath: "He is stubborn and touchy, and unbearably obsolete concerning women." But, she concedes, "we all feel safer to have him in Hu?...
Besides being an indefatigable woman chaser who didn't care what he mixed with his Bourbon blood, France's Louis XIV was a fatherly figure who did his best to treat his bastards as if they were true princes. Decked out with noble titles, married off to peers of the realm, the royal by-blows took their places in court and kingdom beside their legitimate brothers. Thus raised high by the king's power alone, the king's shadow family was a perfect gauge of his fortunes...