Word: exoticisms
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The entire $3,000 repast came from a Munich delicatessen, but hardly the kind where Americans pick up a six-pack or a pound of pastrami after the A & P has closed. Munich's 250-year-old Alois Dallmayr's is a Delikatessen in the original German sense...
THE RED SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tallulah Bankhead plays Madame Fragrant, "the world's greatest authority on exotic perfumes," to Skelton's man from the gas company looking for a leak. Repeat.
He had his own ideas of how a meal should go. He preferred lunch to dinner, rarely invited more than ten, included few women (two at most). He abhorred water, put goldfish in the water pitchers to discourage would-be teetotalers. Once at table, his guests braced themselves for surprises...
"There are still mysterious forces at work in the world," says Isaac Bashevis Singer. Dipping his pen in an inkwell of wonders, he has drawn out, in his demonic, forceful fiction (The Family Moskat, The Magician of Lublin, Short Friday), a fantastic and various vision of Eastern Europe's...
Animal Butchery. Jean Genet, France's existential sensualist, joined forces with Director Tony Richardson and Actress Jeanne Moreau, a festival favorite, to produce Mademoiselle, a story of Sodom in the suburbs. It should have been a festival favorite too; instead it got soundly, roundly booed, possibly because Moreau overworks...