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Baby Want A Kiss tries to walk a delicate line between satire and psychology and falls flat on its face. Playwright James Costigan takes us behind the glamorous facade of a Hollywood couple into the sordid little bathroom of their lives and the result is almost laughable when serious and pretty unfunny when humorous...
Mavis and Emil (Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) traipse out to the country retreat of an old pal, a writer, Edward (played by Costigan); they hope to lure him back to Hollywood to dash off a screenplay of Walden. But what they really like about Eddie is that he swings. It seems that Mavis is a nymphomaniac, Emil tres gay, and Edward can play both ways...
Like all satire, Costigan's humor dwells on the difference between appearance and reality, but the appearances he mocks are obviously hollow, Costigan thinks it's rich that muscular, America-firster Emil is a queer, that steely, sultry Mavis always leaves her door unlocked in hotels, and that shuffling, knock-kneed Edward is the sexual object of both public demigods. So, stars are phonies, so what...
...Servant (TIME, March 20), and critics have given him the serious acceptance he was looking for. More over, just as The Servant opened in the U.S., he was scoring another success on U.S. television - opposite Julie Harris in the Hallmark Hall of Fame's remake of James Costigan's Little Moon of Alban...
Wednesday, March 18 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).-Julie Harris and Dirk Bogarde in a new production of the James Costigan drama, Little Moon of Alban, originally presented in 1958. Color...