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Says Producer Billy Wilder: "A bad play folds, and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says: 'My father is an idiot...
THIS critical pecking precedes a confession that this reviewer sat through Demoiselles with a happy idiot grin on his face, intensely pleased to watch beautiful people gaze at one another and sing lines like, "Mais tu es merveilleuse," and "Son profil est celui de ces vierges mythiques qui hantent les musees et les adolescents." Michel Legrand's music (never absent--like Cherbourg, the film is entirely sung) makes much use of half a dozen excellent themes; a ridiculously Rachmanioffy piano concerto and the chanson de Maxence are particularly memorable. Demy's lyrics simple and direct ("Estelle loin...
Randall Darwall's settings are striking, although they concentrate on evoking the ambiance of American Synthetic, and so serve to further confuse the dramatic issue. Especially notable is his paper-collage house curtain, suggestive of a ransom note assembled from picture magazines by a gigantic idiot...
...sexes (boys in a gymnasium, girls in McCarthy supporters' homes). In keeping with McCarthy's own austerity, the kids largely eschewed beer drinking, though one group of New Yorkers nearly came to grief in a Rochester bar: a local tough announced that "McCarthy is a mongoloid idiot," but was soon buying beer for the earnest young proselytizers on the simple strength of their arguments and jovially warning them to "drink it or wear...
...confessed that her go-go had gone years ago, but wondered if it was all right for her to watch anyway. And last week there was a letter from Cavett's idiot cousin Clarence. He is the simp who lost his job at the St. Louis Zoo after he decided to run the place on the honor system. Recently, reports Cavett, Clarence registered his own feeble protest to the Viet Nam war. He boiled his draft card...