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That young lady caught with her pants down is Australian-born Actress Belinda Bauer in the movie made from Richard Condon's Winter Kills. When a wealthy heir (Jeff Bridges) takes her out to lunch, the stuffy maitre d' tries to kick her out for wearing a pantsuit. Belinda blithely drops her trousers and sits down anyway. "It was a wonderful moment," recalls the sometime model, "but then I'm an exhibitionist." She is also a perfectionist: for her first film role-Belinda, 26, plays a reporter for a national newsmagazine-she spent days observing journalists...
...reason we're gonna win is because we love music," boomed Candidate Bella Abzug, displaying her usual optimism if not faultless logic. Seeking to jazz up her campaign for the Democratic Senate nomination, Bella stopped in at Eddie Condon's in Manhattan for a jam session with the house band, Red Balaban & Cats. While Bella boogied, Balaban introduced a new campaign song, sung to the tune of I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. Sample lyrics: "I wish I could legislate like my sister Bella/ She can write better laws than any right-wing fella." Chances...
...patient is sitting up and taking umbrage. After several dolorous books, Richard Condon, no black humorist but an eyeball-red one in the great, ranting days of The Manchurian Candidate and The Oldest Confession, seems to be stirring faintly back to life. Money Is Love does have patches so swampy that even addicted admirers will cast down their eyes in shame, but the life signs are nevertheless strong: "Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. He swallowed hard. He held it down until...
This is not great Condon, but it is good Condon. The murdered dude was a whiz-bang insurance salesman, the best-dressed knight of the Million Dollar Round Table and a sure bet to pull down $ 150,000 a year. Naturally his wife wants him back. Using a computerized electronic prayer wheel that she whips up with her soldering iron, she petitions all gods ancient and modern, known or rumored, and becomes (to the surprise of the gods themselves) the first soul in recorded eternity to get a message through...
Incoherence approaches an absolute. It would take George Bernard Shaw to handle the resultant ironies of God, man and money. Condon merely bangs the ironies together, hoping that they will make comical sounds. Such is his rare and clangorous gift that sometimes they do. ∙John Skow