Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hope, locked into a star image that no fiction will penetrate, nominally portrays an Oregon real estate schnook who calls a wrong number and soon has Elke bathing at his remote woodland cottage. "The biggest thing in bathtubs since rings," he says, snatching every conversational gambit from a store of one-line gags that often sound like a prelude to a friendly word from his sponsor. As Hope's mop-topped maid, Phyllis cleans up the house, dirties up the jokes, and delivers her own brand of kitcheny self-deprecation. There is never the slightest doubt that her next...
...Glass Bottom Boat uses space-age wizardry and spy fiction to fizz up the formula for a Doris Day sex comedy. As usual, the man cast opposite her has to perform somewhat like the catcher in a flashy female trapeze act, and Rod Taylor doughtily goes through the motions of Doris-appreciation without losing his grip. As a combination scientific whiz kid and loverboy, Rod invents an anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit...
EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette: edited by Robert Phelps. A life of sensualism and intellectual adventure is traced in Colette's random reminiscences; nothing in her own sensitive fiction is as fascinating as the story of her emergence from the shadow of a cynical, exploiting husband...
...FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week) 2. The Adventurers, Robbins...
...FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week...