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...their interest in Latin, it occurred to him to translate Winnie the Pooh for use as a text. But he decided that paradise must be better than this, and he moved on and out. Wangling a license as a practicing pharmacist, he settled in the village he calls Donna Irma, in the coffee-growing uplands of southern Brazil...
Kiss Me, Stupid. The careers of Producer-Director Billy Wilder and his favorite collaborator, Writer I.A.L. Diamond, can be traced in a curve that peaked in such frantic, funny, wickedly knowing comedies as Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, plunged downward in Irma La Douce, and now lands in the murk of Kiss Me, Stupid, a jape that seems to have scraped its blue-black humor off the floor of a honky-tonk nightclub...
...competitors, the firm tries to pioneer new trends. American Seating maintains elaborate research facilities where desks are tested by being banged with weights, chairs tilted back endlessly on two legs (40,000 tilts exhaust the life span of the average school-desk chair). Its research star is "Squirming Irma," a manikin that swivel-hips for thousands of hours in its seat in imitation of a fidgeting teenager...
Lemmon has appeared in such films as "Mr. Roberts," "Some Like It Hot," and "Irma La Douce...
...bomblike possibilities, notably Yvette Mimieux. But an explosion is unlikely to occur. A new sex goddess would have to get multiple goddess roles. Fewer movies are being made, and when the plump parts come, the lean girls seem to get them: the best sex role in recent years is Irma La Douce, yet it is played by Shirley MacLaine, whose deep decolletage cannot conceal the clean-cut kookie girl beneath...