Word: chichi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about personal freedom," soberly explains Director Tom O'Horgan, a chichi con artist from off-off-Broadway. "It's about the responsibility of freedom." Futi might also just as well be a propaganda film for the anti-Anti-Vivisection Society, a moving plea for the tolerance of sodomists, or a fearless indictment of soil erosion. It makes no difference, and neither, really, does the movie. Based on Rochelle Owens' play and enacted by a group of wildly undisciplined shock troops who call themselves the La Mama Repertory Troupe,* Futz is merely a piece of fraudulent and fearsomely...
...celebrate the opening of his chichi men's shop, Fashion Designer Bernard Lanvin threw a bash at Brasserie Bofinger, one of the newest In restaurants in Paris. It was a time for the boys to shine, but it was an aging lady of 72 who stole the show. The Duchess of Windsor, looking slim as ever in her well-above-the-knee sequin outfit, wowed the crowd by dancing the Jerk with her host...
...Previewing a charity ball that will be held in Venice in September, after a chichi screening committee selects the 700 guests, Suzy predicted: "Prospective guests will be strained through fine silk, like vichyssoise, and are expected to end up the same way-rich, creamy, perfectly blended-with maybe a sprinkling of chives for excitement...
Before an army of Arabs rides to the rescue by horse and hydrofoil, Modesty unreels a few reasonably sturdy gags in the midst of its chichi nonsense. The zaniest occurs early on when Bogarde's henchmen torture Monica with a piece of mobile sculpture. In a movie so given to self-conscious giggles, even the fine art of manhandling takes a peculiar turn...
...reasonably respectable wife," says Public Relations Wizard Gig Young, rabbeting in a plot gimmick designed to keep a flapdoodle comedy from collapsing in the first reel. Of course, Rock has a demiwife (Gina Lollobrigida) ready at hand in London. But Gina is neither respectable nor reasonable. She is a chichi freethinker, addicted to protest marches and The Arts. Rock had been splattered with so much paint and pizza that they declared a cease-fire seven years ago, are now about to be divorced. He can never go back, Rock insists, not even for dear old Inter-Allied. Why should...