Word: hennaed
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...TINSELTOWN the pariah-to-parvenu actors and actresses--the tots in Hollywood--sit around a barren movie set, pink slips in their hands, pondering their impending return to poverty. Kitty Kaboodle, dancing wonder, naif from Moot Point, Montana, says she'll go home, give up the glamour. But Henna Hoofer, jaded and street-smart, tries to change Kitty's mind; she tells her she's got to keep on, then looks up into the lights in a mood of inspiration invoking the dream of the silver screen: "Everywhere," she says, "there are girls... and a few strange boys... who want...
...York during the Depression with hopes of instant stardom, or at least she says she's marked it on her calendar. Kitty falls in with other down-and-outers in a chorus-line--including Flo Gently, the first lady of the American stage ("The very first"), and Henna Hoofer, whose name is mispronounced more out of a sense of accuracy than anything else--and she meets songwriter Buddy System and falls in love. But Preston Folded, a Hollywood producer scouting for talent, wants to "make free" with Kitty, and in exchange for his taking her and all her friends...
...concerned with quashing dope traffic in the ghetto, and the movie manages to be effective anti-junk propaganda without getting sanctimonious about it. The archvillain is a bulbous bull-dyke, a queen of the pushers called Mommy (Shelley Winters), who turns herself out in a lot of black and henna and rains down awful retribution on recalcitrant underlings. Cleopatra and Mommy spend most of the picture circling each other, but when they finally get together it turns out to be not much of a contest...
...discovers that killing is not only much less strenuous than high school band practice, it is-for her-much more fun besides. Perkins initially has his doubts that homicide can be just a joyride, but Tuesday leads him on to even more glorious heights: together, they gun down her henna-rinsed virago of a mother (Beverly Garland) and light out for Mexico...
...BEAUTY. Few if any of the so-called modern cosmetics are new. Besides shaving off unwanted hair with primitive razors, using rouge, shading their eyes and coloring their lips and nails, women of antiquity stained the soles of their feet with henna and touched up their nipples with purple dye. Perfume was first used at sacred shrines to cover the stench of animals being burned as sacrifices. "Perfume" comes from the Latin, meaning "through the smoke...