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...turned out to be something of a kook's tour. First there was that midnight wedding in Las Vegas with the bride in a short shrift of a shift and the groom in the sockless sports outfit he happened to have on when they jetted out of Paris. Then Brigitte Bardot, 31, and her new, third husband, Gunter Sachs, 33, roared off to Hollywood for a Mad Hatter nuptial dinner, with Danny Kaye personally whipping up his special seven-course Chinese feed for the couple. Next morning, on they zoomed to Tahiti for a get-away-from-everything idyl...
...speaking less for themselves than for a troubled generation in toto. But Director Michael Winner masks the deficiency, coolly catching the feverish, gotta-keep-busy restlessness of youth on the go. Wherever the action is, from ballroom to boardwalk to a beachside spree in which a bride-and-groom are burned in effigy. Winner gives a commanding end-of-summer air to every moment...
...simple and sweet. Chapter shows a cheder, a Hebrew school full of students so serious that they are almost comic, a scene from a Yiddish play, a 1912 home movie of an Orthodox wedding looking for all the world like a series of moving Chagall lithographs of children, bride, groom and wedding guests...
...sustains the drama's reminiscent mood without losing his amused detachment toward the well-educated, privileged creatures who, if nothing else, will remain loyal alumnae till the day they die. Virginity, infidelity, Communism, hard times, conception, contraception, Hitler and high fashion are their concerns. Balefully sizing up the groom at the group's first wedding, a bleak ritual in Greenwich Village, one member of the sisterhood groans: "My God, Harald's wearing brown suede shoes...
...honeymoon they trudged off on a bracing hiking and fishing trip through Washington State's lonely Olympic Peninsula, the young bride decked out in her gifts from the groom: a back pack and hiking boots. After four months of marriage, the young bride panted: "I'm taking vitamin pills." Now, two years later, Joan Martin Douglas, 25, can't keep up any longer. Filing suit for divorce from U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 67, Joan charged the old outdoorsman with "cruel treatment and personal indignities which have rendered plaintiff's life burdensome." The justice...