Word: lecherous
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...AVVENTURA. The year's finest film, possibly a great one: Michelangelo Antonioni looks long and carefully, as if through a microscope, at the life of a lecher, at "the sickness unto death, which is despair...
Actor Beatty plays the pretty boy for laughs as well as looks-seems as though Shirley MacLaine's little brother may be able to act after all. And Actress Leigh brings grace and dignity to a role that, as written, comes depressingly close to a portrait of the lecher as a middle-aged woman...
...titillation, she learns not only that she is the daughter of a slave woman, but that the plantation and she herself with it are being sold for taxes. Soon Amantha (Yvonne De Carlo in the movie) is trembling on the block at a slave auction. A lounging lecher decides to examine the goods, when whack!-a silver-headed cane smashes his wrist. The hero (Clark Gable) pays $2,000, and takes Amantha off to his manor house...
...Yaleman, full of boola, moola and ideals, trying to pursue an honest artistic career. Along the way, he is buffeted by a whipcracking female magazine publisher (Lahr), a Hollywood producer named Harry Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard Allardyce DuPlessis Weatherwax (also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before you can walk...
...Father, Lloyd George, by Richard Lloyd George. The son of Britain's World War I Prime Minister shows in an excellent and well-balanced biography that his famed father was not only a great man but, on occasion, a humbug as well as a lecher on a grand scale...