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...cast reveal any grace. In fairness, it must be hard to contend with roles like these: most of the male characters are pallid Tennessee Williams retreads, and the women are mere camp stereotypes. The movie's two quasi narrators - a tough dance teacher with a 14-carat heart (Helen Gallagher) and a slick M.C. (Don DeNatale) - are shamelessly derived from such sources as Cabaret, Sweet Chanty and They Shoot Horses, Don't They...
...once a slave to Eros and a master of repression, Kepesh struggles between these two facets of his character. But this set pattern of restlessness, dissatisfaction and destruction continues through his other relationships. He marries Helen, a beautiful, adventurous, femme fatale and then proceeds to try to domesticate her. Their marriage dissolves over quarrels about burnt toast and lost letters. The wreckage of his marriage gives rise to a period of depression and unwilling chastity in David's life. A young teacher named Claire rescues him, and David feels he has found at last a sure and steady happiness...
...three-bedroom home in Grosse Pointe Park, read books and play with his daughter's six-year-old son. He keeps in shape with twice-weekly games of golf and tennis. He finds himself "taking better care of the lawn, the house, the cars." He and his wife Helen, 63, make occasional treks to Colorado and Florida, but he does not share all his activities with her. Says he: "We have made an effort to have separate interests so we're not together 24 hours...
Freshman Martha Roberts, replacing her sister Sally as the number one seed this year, captured her first match of the season, 6-2, 6-4. Her consistent baseline play proved too much for opponent Helen McSweetney...
...Life isn't toast!' she finally screams. 'It is!' I hear myself maintaining. 'When you sit down to eat toast, life is toast. And when you take out the garbage, life is garbage! You can't leave the garbage halfway down the stairs, Helen. It belongs in the can in the yard. Covered.' 'I forgot it.' 'How can you forget it when it's already in your hand?' 'Perhaps, dear, because it's garbage...