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Albert died in 1861, a month after learning that his son, then 20, was having a fling with an actress ("You must not, you dare not be lost," he wrote to Edward). A year later "Bertie" was married to Denmark's Alexandra, "the most beautiful Princess in Europe," and shortly thereafter Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds withdrew into almost total seclusion. Bertie was left with an income of roughly $550,000 a year, no tutors, and a great deal of free time...
...original home of the spring fling in Florida is, of course, Fort Lauderdale, which was featured in Max Shulman's book Where the Boys Are and the movie starring Connie Francis. But after the 1961 Lauderdale riots, Daytona invited the college students to come there and each resort has by this time developed its own particular personality for the collegians' stay...
...blends temperament and tolerance to contrast against the beautiful worthlessness of Sorel. But Julia becomes most adorable when Actress Palmer wriggles into character to show all the charm, vanity, insight, ego, witchery and wit of a woman who would rather have top billing than top cooing. Enjoying a last fling at youth, Julia tucks away her qualms, reaches for her checkbook and asks her swain: "How can I thank you?" He knows. So does she. "I haven't cried since The Stricken Heart,'" she soliloquizes unhappily. When she realizes she has been made a fool of, however, Julia...
...sweetness and chastity, however. The maid (Bina Breitner) is having a not-so-discreet fling with a beatnik named Claude (Larry Gonick), and even Mother's cardinal virtues melt quickly into carnal pleasures in his agreeable arms...
...ugly bag good for a one night stand? Well, we're not supposed to ask those questions. Still, the happy ending seems a good sign; the transgressors get off pretty lightly. A few years ago the moviegoing public would have demanded a little more suffering for such a sportive fling...