Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perverse way, it is a happy ending, and one with a moral: a husband and wife always have a chance to make a go of it as long as they can laugh at a single private joke-even if the joke is marriage...
...frozen action as a cartoon. Dinsmore is on a roof undressing a girl. Stop. Comment. He makes love. Stop. He throws her off the roof into Long Island traffic. Comment, existential chuckle. Dinsmore gets a stop-action hysterectomy which, allowing for differences of taste, is still not the last laugh. But that it is humorous at all is Downey's victory...
There is a crudeness in this joking, and the crudeness is the best part of the movie. Downey will do anything with the camera to get a laugh, even if it means leaving the screen black at the end of the film while a Negrohippie voice slanders all that is good...
Unfortunately, there was not always a lot for Nancy Sinatra to laugh about; during the first 25 years of her life, Laughing Face was as close as she ever came to fame. Now, however, with four hit records and two starring movie roles to her credit, she can claim to have made it on her own. Nancy, in fact, is lately being given the kind of celebrity treatment usually accorded her father. In Viet Nam, where she recently toured, 37 outfits generously named her their No. 1 pinup girl. She is currently negotiating a contract with the Pontiac people...
Chabi Riswas, one of India's leading actors, plays the aristocrat. He has the imperious laugh and slightly flacid look of the landowner and master. When he mounts for the last charge, he must be revered, not because he is himself endearing, but because the alternative is a world of half-smoked cigarettes and tooting car horns. He is the only character in the movie who is more than the stock figure of a class or station...