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...Lenin's grandfather "was born a Jew." Fischer places the responsibility where it belongs, on the Soviet government. "The records were undoubtedly available in Russia's bulging archives," he writes, "but the Bolsheviks saw fit to suppress them. This feeds the suspicion that there is something to conceal...
...like my widow's weeds?" As the girl eventually transformed into Rina Marlowe, a doomed Hollywood sex goddess, Actress Baker seems uncertain about which actress living or dead she is not supposed to resemble. Although her widely publicized nude scene has been disnuded, she wears costumes that thinly conceal the loss, and also delivers some of the film's funniest asides. Sinking into the horn-and-hide trappings of a limousine belonging to Western He-man Nevada Smith (Alan Ladd), she burbles in her best Baby Doll manner: "I feel like I've been swallowed...
...color travel pieces for the titillation of its family audience. Fleming did; the aging essays reprinted here are the result. About the closest Fleming got to sin was a $2 taxi dance in Macao and a $100 bet in Las Vegas. Most of the time he hardly troubles to conceal his boredom. Honolulu he found "just another reservation for the pensioners," which he left "without many regrets." Berlin's night life "is certainly not what it used to be." In New York, "I enjoyed myself least of all." As travel writing, the book is silly and vulgar...
...Belle Ile is one of the prettiest of the offshore islands scattered along France's Atlantic coast, and it is one of the places the French have managed to conceal from tourists. They go there themselves, especially in August, but even then it is not crowded on the sandy beaches, protected by rocky cliffs, off which there is excellent sailing, fishing, swimming and skindiving. Sarah Bernhardt had a house there, and there is still an occasional theatrical or intellectual visitor who is delighted to discover hotels such as Manoir de Goulphar with a view of the sea from every...
Later, the potholes in the plot tend to become troublesome, particularly in Bates's dealings with an oversexed landlady who helps him to conceal a corpse. But Director Clive Donner (The Guest, Genevieve) maneuvers between black comedy and melodrama with absorbing skill. Maintaining a light, steady touch on the story line, he deploys his camera for a series of witty asides, mocking views of upper-crust life as it is temptingly reproduced in the advertising on the lid of a cookie tin. And one ripe interlude at a hunt ball finds all the horsiest young socialites in full...