Word: fauna
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...girl with no home, Miss Tyler is taken under the care of Helen Traubel (Fauna), the kindly proprietor and procurer for the Bear Flag Cafe, which serves up any number of interesting dishes. Miss Traubel handles her role as well as her charges, and her full voice only occasionally fails to cross the footlights. She puts a hefty bounce into her lines and succeeds in her match-making, legal and otherwise...
Only slightly less decorous characters are the boys of the Palace Flop-house, the Doc's friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...
...Please do not understand me too quickly," warns Author Mailer by way of a tag (from André Gide). There is not much to understand in this narrative about the life of the West Coast's film fauna: the prose and the sex are as thick as ever. This seemed forgivable in The Naked and the Dead; the boys in a jungle combat platoon ("Kinsey's Army," as one British reviewer called it) were not supposed to talk like lady members of a book club. But in The Deer Park (the title is taken from a huge private...
Anyway, the Englishman takes out a $2,000,000 insurance policy, and a few days later is drowned at sea. Or was he? The insurance company sends Dana Andrews to investigate. Dana's way is barred by large numbers of hostile fauna - cobras, stuffed leopards, baboons, Jeanne Grain, elephants, hippos - but he comes through grandly, with nothing more than a case of explorer's knee, to the climactic "Mr. Henderson, I presume...
Plot? Yes, there is one, of sorts. Scholarly Doc is in the middle-aged dumps. Hazel, Fauna and the rest of Cannery Row decide that he needs a woman, perhaps even a wife. While guzzling a liquid killer called "Old Tennis Shoes," they pick the girl, a scrappy newcomer at the Bear Flag named Suzy. Suzy is unsure of herself. It seems that she was rejected as a child. As she tells it to her friend Hazel...