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...audience and a blue cutout doily. It is the serpent in Eden. "This," Andersen scribbled under it, "is the snake of knowledge, representing both good and evil." The dilemma of coming to grips with any work of art became the subject of another image, "Art and the Critic"-a fop peers through a lorgnette at a mocking head faceted with many small variants of the same face that peer from within-all invented, it seems, by the writer at work in his cell in the creature's neck. The critic can see the face, not what lies behind...
...Bobo. Peter Sellers, his fans may be happy to learn, is alive and living in Barcelona. There he sallies forth as a singing bullfighter impaled on the horns of a dilemma. A fop as a matador, a flop as a troubadour, he has decided to leave the corrida and seek a stage career. Down to his last peseta, he desperately accepts a dare by the local impresario (Adolfo Celi), who agrees to book him into his theater on one condition: Sellers must seduce Britt Eklund (Mrs. Peter Sellers offstage), an ice-cold big-league golddigger whose favorite phrase is "Mine...
...cartoonist (Richard Benjamin), She is his wife (Paula Prentiss), there's a fop actor (Jack Cassidy) who poses for the strip, and the name of the game is situation comedy. Premiere...
Alan Richards is far too surly and petulant to make Jean, Berenger's fop friend, as funny as he should be in the opening scenes. It may be that this petulance is the only way to make Berenger's lines work as well as they do, but I'm not convinced it is. Then, too, a good portion of Jean's badinage was lost in the cafe scene because it was never made clear to the audience that his remarks were meant to apply to a conversation at the next table and vice versa...
...George Etherege, Restoration fop and mover, tossed off a play called The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter. The play is unfettered by plot, unburdened by morals, unsourced by satire. Like the Glass Flowers, it is all for appearance, a collection of delicately made specimens of a certain type of life. The Man of Mode is very much of its age, not for all time. In this limp-wrist world, the winners win by virtue of their wit, and the losers lose for having the bad taste to display jealously -- a situation which confuses our twentieth-century sympathies. Furthermore...