Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, 24, and Major Charles S. Robb, 29, currently on duty in Viet Nam with the 1st Marine Division: a girl, their first child, and President Johnson's second grandchild; in Bethesda...
...promising one, and perhaps one day Farrow can play it for what it's worth. For now, she is trapped in a glossy, twittering movie that poses as a psychological horror story. Leonora, an over-the-hill prostitute (Elizabeth Taylor), is accosted by Cencion a London bus. The girl invites her home-where Leonora discovers an eerily familiar face in a photograph. Cenci's dead mum was a ringer for the prostitute. And, vice versa, Cenci reminds the prostitute of her daughter, dead lo these seven years. The two settle down symbiotically in Cenci's gloomy, Edwardian...
Confined to a few brief scenes, the bearded Mitchum is little more than a cameo of a goat. The bloated, bejeweled Taylor seems less a depleted call girl than a prosperous madam. But alternately snooty or snarling, she does underline the message of her role: there is nothing more pretentious than swank posing as class. Unfortunately, that is the message of the film as well...
...makes himself astonish ingly at home. Curtis plays the ordinary Albert without his customary flip mannerisms. And as the monster within the skin, he is something else. Under orders from some burning sector of his mind, he hysterically re-enacts one killing by wrapping his hands around an imaginary girl's windpipe. Hovering between pathos and terror, Curtis suddenly makes the viewer's breath stop in his own throat - and incidentally gives a glimpse of the picture that got lost somewhere between Boston and Hollywood...
...Alas, when the real Freddy Exley stands up, he proves to be singularly inept. Drunkenly, he stumbles from one football weekend to the next. The games with their supermen provide the pitiful framework for his misspent manhood. He destroys his fledgling career in publicity. He finds that his dream girl personified the materialistic, castrating American woman. His weaknesses lead him to three stays in sanatoriums. Finally, he becomes a contemporary Oblomov, spending his nights and days on couches and beds, living in the marathon shadow world of television's cultural prefabrication, and talking...