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...J.F.K. Drinking Glass," a tumbler adorned with a sky-blue caricature of the late President, J.F.K. chocolate-filled gold coins (10?), and a posthumous J.F.K. prayer ("Special Delivery from Heaven," $2.95 gift-boxed). Other big-selling souvenirs include martini shakers cunningly shaped like bedpans, rubber and nylon "Golden Goddess Shrunken Heads," and a coffee-table plaque that reads: GOD BLESS THIS LOUSY APARTMENT. Vacationers stand in line for rococo delicacies ranging from frankfurters stewed in champagne (it says) to chocolate-covered frozen bananas...
...seen the decline of the sex goddess as a type, and Hollywood seems not to care about cultivating any more. One reason perhaps is that young American actresses would rather be considered serious than seductive. Europe by contrast, is burgeoning with girls who know how to be both-and have to be for the Continent's beloved bedroom operas. Ironically, the immense increase in U.S. moviemaking abroad has given Europe's New Wave actresses an unparalleled opportunity to win fame in big-budget, internationally distributed films...
...movie like this, a statement like that means let's dance. In no time at all, the lady appears in black chiffon to ask: "How d'ya like my widow's weeds?" As the girl eventually transformed into Rina Marlowe, a doomed Hollywood sex goddess, Actress Baker seems uncertain about which actress living or dead she is not supposed to resemble. Although her widely publicized nude scene has been disnuded, she wears costumes that thinly conceal the loss, and also delivers some of the film's funniest asides. Sinking into the horn-and-hide trappings...
Jean Harlow, first sex goddess of the talkies, had a life that epitomized Thomas Hobbes's phrase for the life of the "natural" man: poor, nasty, brutish and short. Her mother was domineering and obsessed with sex; her stepfather was a sponging promoter of fake gold mines. Jean's second husband, Producer Paul Bern, shot himself two months after the wedding. She could not act, but her platinum hair, husky voice, and refusal to wear a brassiere were enough to gross millions at the box office for Howard Hughes and Louis B. Mayer. She died...
Tammy is a genie out of another bottle. From a mouth carved by a razor she lets slip songs and dialogue as if they were secret vices. Other people speak; Tammy makes animal noises. She looks like a love goddess playfully absent without leave from the moon...