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Mademoiselle is an exquisitely photographed flop in which three flamboyant talents compound each other's mistakes. Trying an English-language drama overladen with artsy Continental flavor, Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) miscasts Jeanne Moreau, an actress far too frost-free to catch the temper of a frustrated spinster. She brings every subconscious drive boiling to the surface, and her roaring heterosexual readiness makes a parody of the screenplay by France's poet of perversion, Jean Genet...
...queen, Christina of Sweden was something of a flop. Her reign lasted only ten years; then she converted to Roman Catholicism, abdicated, moved to Rome, and became a national embarrassment. As a historical personage, she inspired more fiction than fact with her bizarre ways. Greta Garbo played her on the screen in 1934 as a vamp who went disguised as a man, washed her face with snow, and proclaimed that she expected to die "not an old maid but a bachelor...
Side 3 of Blonde on Blonde bears a mother lode of vacuity, 4 of its 5 songs. "Temporary Like Achilles" adds some new verses to the great flop from Opus 6, "It Takes a Train to Cry," but it cuts out the yodel-like chorus that almost saved that earlier piece...
...VISTA, CAP, TAP, PROP, DWOP, HARYOU and related programs should be combined in a new government agency, Federal Legislation on Poverty (FLOP...
...room motel in the heart of town seven years ago, the smart hostelry money had long since been out in the suburbs. Figuring that Matthews, whose business was parking lots, just did not know any better, some of the local hotelmen charitably warned him that he was bound to flop. Some flop! By its second day, Matthews' Downtowner Motor Inn was filled to capacity, and this week in Muskegon, Mich., Matthews opens his 66th motor inn. Plans are for a new one about every nine days for the rest of the year...