Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentrating on night life, however, we overlook Lolita, girlish wonder of Coral Beach. Lolita strolls the beach all day with her mother, and sometimes makes catches. Tuesday, Murray and I ran into Lolita and her mother. Momma, after telling us quickly about her boy friends, wanted to know our college backgrounds. "Harvard? Gee, you must work awfully hard. Come on, you must. No one could last four years there without doing something," We tried to be honest...
...Then Lolita led us along to her cave along the shore. She hid behind a rock in it until we spied her. The mother noticed a bikini top lying on another rock there. "Oh, do get a picture of that! Just the bra sitting on the rock." Meanwhile, Lolita had found us flowers, and then she flitted up a stone stairway in the cliff to the grassy top. Why do the birds go on singing...
Poor old Humbert Humbert met a host of problems during his pursuit of Lolita, but they were nothing compared with those faced by the optimists intent on adapting Vladimir Nabokov's novel to the musical stage. Dropped as "too ripe" was Annette Ferra, 15 (TIME, March 1). Into the role went Denise Nickerson, 13, who opened as the nifty nymphet in Boston last week. "I can play a sexpot as well as anybody," she told an interviewer, but first-night critics had their reservations. Said one: "She smiles and speaks and sings like a sweet ten-year...
...Lolita, My Love needs much more than Top 40 material, however. It needs style and taste and depth, and these are things which Alan Jay Lerner's idea of theater evidently can no longer offer...
...those special departments of the musical comedy that Lolita, My Love is strangest. The sets by Ming Cho Lee are all very impressive, the choreography by John Morris occasionally exciting. John Barry's first Broadway musical score (after Goldfinger, Midnight Cowboy and lots of other movies) includes several fine numbers, including a very charming ballad about Humbert's past, "In the Broken Promise Land of Fifteen." "How Far Is It To The Next Town" is a good song, but its refrain is hardly an adequate substitute for the constant car travel between motels in the book and movie. The mindless...