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...this respect the film version of The Happy Hooker is faithful to the book and then some. Director Nick Sgarro kept the American Dream theme going, in an age when everyone is wondering wistfully whatever happened to the self-made man, by presenting Xavier as the epitome of the self-made woman. The scenario is almost too complete: She arrives in the U.S. as a poor immigrant, a good girl, and gets a bad deal from her fiance (the only man she knows here). With no training and no capital, she makes do with what she has and goes into...
This story about how a nice girl becomes a nice girl who is also a hooker is not one-sidedly sexist. it casually shortchanges both sexes. The only men in the film are Xavier's one-time fiance, an incurable mama's boy who cured her of marriage forever, and her clients, who ask to be whipped, stroked, licked, played with, or just listened to. However normal they may be at work and at home, they bring their neuroses and loneliness to Xaviera. She and her girls minister to their needs while passing knowing smiles to each other behind...
...Happy Hooker, 1, 4:30, 8 p.m., Bar barella, 2:45, 6:15, 9:45, tonight: A Woman Under the influenes 2:30, 7:15, Straw Degs, 5, 9:45, starts tomorrow...
...Happy Hooker, 1, 4:30, 8 p.m., Barbarella, 2:45, 6:15, 9:45, through Sunday...
...Exorcist, 3:40, 7:45, The Devils, 1:45, 5:45, 9:45, tonight; Happy Hooker, 1, 4:30, 8 p.m., Barbarella, 2:45, 6:15, 9:45, starting tomorrow...