Word: harlots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After years playing opposite Bogart, Bogarde, Flynn, Benny and Gable, Alexis Smith finally gets to play the harlot Xaviera instead of hard to get. She slides down stairs and moseys off stage convincingly enough, but the Texas Tally Wackers--the "orchestra"--drown out her songs. She's still a pretty classy old whore, and does her best to compensate for a script crammed full of non-sequiturs. The storyline slips readily from bathos to pathos and back again...
...Occasionally he is testy and impetuous, presumably because all artists should be temperamental. But his fits express less the mercurial quality of genius as the self-consciousness of a sexually insecure teenager. Malle could have centered the plot around the intriguing archetype of the aging pervert and the precocious harlot. But instead he gave us two children who pretty much deserve each other...
Brooks' perspective on the characters is equally simplistic. Not only does he come very close to making Theresa into a harlot, but he also transforms the men into brutish stereotypes. The heroine's father (Richard Kiley) and first lover (Alan Feinstein) are far less sympathetically drawn than they were in the novel. Theresa's one appealing suitor (William Atherton), whose sweetness should leaven the story, becomes as cruel as the rest. Only the Italian stud Tony, played with magnetic ferocity by Richard Gere, seems remotely human...
...most original minds of the Victorian epoch? The notion is at once revolutionary and traditional. Two decades ago, in A Study in Terror, Ellery Queen affected to find a fugitive manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson, M.D. It told of Holmes' pursuit of one John the Harlot Killer, also known as Jack the Ripper. For The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer "uncovers" another manuscript, detailing the adventures of the stately Holmes of England in his struggle against the temptations of "nose candy." He also trots out all the old Baker Street regulars: Toby the relentless mongrel; the world...
Literature is a seducer, we had almost said a harlot. She may do to trifle with, but woe be to the state whose statesmen writes verses, and whose lawyers read more in Tom Moore than in Bracton...