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...FLO HUGHES...
...more for the find than the food. Evidenced by the nightly lines. The Green Turtle seems Cambridge's find of the spring. But The Green Turtle will never be to its discovers what Gigi was to Gaston. Jackie Robinson was to Branch Rickey, and Fanny was to Flo Ziegfield...
...Most females were more interested in children than they were in males. Jane found that chimp mothers who made their babies get out on their own at an early age wound up with clinging, frightened children. Steady, loving and even indulgent mothers, in contrast, generally had happy, independent offspring. Flo, a perfectly hideous old chimp who for reasons beyond human imagination made all the males go ape at mating season, was a model mother when the study began. She played with her babies continually, picked them up at the first whimper, followed every slap with a squeeze and cleverly distracted...
...comparison, Pretty Maids is truly comic relief - a kinky, funny, often on-target sat ire about libidinous teen-agers and their equally eager elders. Director Vadim constantly undercuts himself with the kind of sleazy eroticism (many shots of panties and nubile cleavage) that has made him a cinematic Flo Ziegfeld, but his decidedly black sense of humor has not been so finely honed since he made Les Liaisons Dangereuses ten years ago. The plot concerns a high school guidance counselor and football coach (nicely played by Rock Hudson) who relates to students in a decidedly intimate fashion. The film does...
Follies is almost sans plot. Just before his old Broadway theater is to be torn down, Impresario Dmitri Weismann (read Flo Ziegfeld) orders a first and last reunion of his celebrated personnel. All the familiar types attend: Phyllis, the leggy brunette (Alexis Smith) who married well; Sally, the third-from-the-left blonde (Dorothy Collins) who didn't. The bolero-dancing couple (Victor Griffin and Jayne Turner) who bought a Fred Astaire franchise ("Styles change; you never can tell"), the wisecracking queen bee (Yvonne De Carlo) with her hive of young drones; the feathery Continental (Justine Johnston) who remembers Franz...