Word: lil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other American truism: there's a sucker born every minute. Ben runs away to Chicago, sin city, carnival to a million peculators in wheat, meat and railways. Pickpockets, exposure and starvation nearly do him in until the boy comes under the wing of a municipal madam named Queen Lil (Melina Mercouri). Lil's most valued friend is one Francis X. Sullivan (Brian Keith), a gruff newspaperman who booms about integrity and who would sell his grandmother for a headline...
...decade ago, this kind of love play would have been hard to find outside the confines of mephitic movie houses that feature such titles as The Orgy at Lil's Place and Lust Weekend. Now, however, Therese and Isabelle is appearing in the same kind of neighborhood art house that in better days showed films by Antonioni and Godard. In short, the old skinema is putting on airs and is making a bid for the middle-class matron in the afternoon and the middle-class couple at night...
...time you reach "Party at Lil's Place" at the State, the supply of adjectives (but not exclamation points) has apparently been exhausted. After such feeble attempts as "a scathing film of a girl without morals!" the poster-painter throws up his brush with "Her desire was always there...
...McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. The publishers must be funnin'. Unwittingly, Berry Morgan, a 47-year-old Mississippi housewife, has produced the dadgum laughingest parody of magnolia-and-plantation fiction to come out of the South since Marse Robert surrendered at Appomattox. Her passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor turns as purplish black...
...result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their conscience dictates; they are losing the freedom to obey the law." She warned: "Neither cancer nor segregation will go away while you close your eyes.'' Last week, at 68, Miss Lil died in Atlanta of the cancer that had ravaged her body for years...