Word: flickingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THURSDAY; Valley of the Dollls. Dionne Warwick's singing of the title theme is perhaps the best part of this 1967 knocker, but the flick was a hit way back then and some people I am told even find Jacqueline Susan amusing. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...
...sentimental movie fan it seemed something like a nightmare: Liz and Dick Burton were getting a divorce in public-and on TV at that. No fear. The TV split was for one of ABC's quickie nighttime movies, Divorce; His-Divorce; Hers. It was the Burtons' twelfth flick together since it all began on the set of Cleopatra eleven years ago. Stories from the set made it clear that the Burtons had considerable trouble sticking to the soapy script, with such forgettable lines by jilted wife Liz as, "You'll never be able to give as much...
...verdict. The movie would lead viewers to practice sex with more freedom and pleasure, suggested a psychiatrist. The film was an amusing satire on contemporary sexual mores, said a movie critic. There was nothing new or compelling in these arguments, which have been advanced for many a skin flick in many an obscenity hearing...
...boasted quite a reputation among film school cliques. He was the valiant proponent of auteur criticism (the reviewing wave of the future), banking in movies for their own sake and American ones in particular. The argument for him went this way. Sarris is the only critic to catch every flick in town, and immediately tell you the history behind the credits. He also cares about camera movements. The other critics and reviewers are politicos and literati in disguise...
...readily follow the logic of the events in which he is partaking. In accordance with this and with the Hollywood approach to everything in general. Foreman's screen adaptation doss not tap any deep springs of character or political behavior. What we get instead is a robust action flick far above the usual cut, interspersed with the documentary machinery of early rotogravure photographs on mahogany bureaus, newsreel clips of the real Winston, and a decent imitation of Churchill's familiar, lisping voice narrating various segments of the film...