Word: krasna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday in New York, by Norman Krasna. has as its heroine an unhip news-chick who is 22 and given to wondering out loud whether she should give up her virginity. The chick (Pat Stanley) is assured by her air pilot brother (Conrad Janis) that nice girls shouldn't. Her millionaire boy friend walks out on her, contending that she should. Riding a Manhattan Fifth Avenue bus and nursing the blues, she hooks another eligible male (Robert Redford) - hooks him literally, with a barbed dress catch that rips out his breast pocket. They share a snack and a movie...
Actors Stanley and Redford pump fresh air into Krasna's saggy script, especially its laugh-shy first act. But they cannot camouflage the fact that this type of play has long been outgrown by just about everyone whose first love was not a box office...
...four times a year, and to anyone who fails to grasp Japan's attractions as against Shirley's, she staunchly defends the arrangement: "If they don't understand, that's their problem." Understanding will scarcely be helped by the movie, My Geisha, although Scriptwriter Norman Krasna says he based it on real life-all about a star's husband (played by Yves Montand) who wants to make it on his own in Japan. Deadpans Shirley: "I've got to be good in this picture, or I'll make my husband look like...
...That Lady? scarcely skirts the standard pitfall of the comedy of errors: i.e., as the errors multiply, the comedy divides and dwindles. But Lady's trio of nimble headliners foot the measures of Producer-Writer Norman Krasna's so-so script trippingly. Dean Martin neatly blends tomfoolery and tomcattery. Except for the initial spat, real life Husband-and-Wife Team Curtis and Leigh nibble at each other as voraciously as if they were hors d'oeuvres at a cannibal cocktail party. The assorted nonsense will probably irk no one except college faculty wives, who may find...