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Where the Hot Wind Blows (Titanus; Embassy). "Gigolo!" hoots a smalltime Italian racketeer (Yves Montand) when his son tries to run away with a wealthy married woman (Melina Mercouri). In shame the boy abandons her. His father then looks the woman over, approves of his son's selection and announces suavely: "You cannot go home. My room is at your disposal." Stunned, she follows him. In the room he grabs her, kisses her, slugs her, rips her dress away. "Please," she murmurs seductively, "turn out the light." Triumphant, he turns to do as she asks, turns back in horror...
Very little happens in The Black Book; it is all murk and manifesto. One meets a menagerie of physical and spiritual cripples-Tarquin, a homosexual; Lobo, a whoremonger; Clare, a gigolo; Gregory, a poet whose feelings chafe against a talent one size too small. These tortured grotesques are insignificant, but they prefigure the Alexandria novels. So does the fetid brilliance of the passages in which
...reporter for a Vienna daily. At 20, he was off to Berlin as a movie and drama reviewer. Not long afterward, he fell in love with a dancer and was fired for neglecting his work. Next thing he knew, Billy himself was dancing for his supper as a nightclub gigolo, and writing film scripts on the side. At 27, with 50 screenplays behind him and the German movie industry apparently at his feet, Billy, who is Jewish, fled to France to escape the Nazis...
...bargain, he gave her a new Cadillac. In September, Carole left her husband, a muscleman named Jimmy Pappa, who proceeded to give Barbara Finch an earful about Bernie's other life. Barbara then decided to start divorce proceedings herself. As a counterattack, Finch explained, he hired an "unscrupulous gigolo." John Cody was engaged, he said, to "get something" on Barbara "if he had to sleep with her himself...
...Back in Sydney to cool off (and to take treatment for a virulent dose of gonorrhea), Errol got a job as a bottle smeller for a soft-drink company, i.e., he sniffed empty bottles to detect kerosene, etc., to discover which bottles needed special washing. Later he was the gigolo of a wealthy middle-aged woman who "woke my understanding of the possible wonder and diversity of the female form." One night, tired of his work, Errol skipped out with all her jewels...