Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Love Bug is the Walt Disney organization's whimsical tribute to the Volkswagen. The little thing gets a crush on a down-and-out racing driver (Dean Jones) and follows him home. Jones spurns the smitten vehicle until he discovers that it has a mind of its own. The bug, it seems, is just about the fastest thing on four wheels and is fairly dropping its transmission to give Jones a ride to fame and fortune. The glory road, however, is constantly being rerouted by a swishy villain (David Tomlinson), who is determined to seize the wondrous...
...outcome of all this is about as predictable as the benumbing succession of autopomorphic gags. Connoisseurs of camp may enjoy watching Tomlinson ranting at the Volkswagen, but The Love Bug is surely the first film in which the actors (Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett) are so meticulously insipid that a car can handily steal the show...
...Baby Love is a tacky little enterprise about a scheming English teen-ager named Luci (Linda Hayden). An unhappy and uninteresting hybrid of Lilith and Lolita, Luci is first seen putting on an exhibition of osculation for her delighted classmates, and things deteriorate-rather rapidly-from there. She comes home from school one day to discover that Mum (Diana Dors) has done herself in. Luci goes off to stay with one of Mum's old lovers (Keith Barren), a successful doctor whose opulent standard of living suggests that socialized medicine in Britain has not put much of a dent...
...lesbianism. Junior (Derek Lamden) develops insatiable lechery, and the good doctor himself breaks out in cold sweats over Luci's miniskirts. Director Alastair Reid uses lots of nervous zoom shots and enormous close-ups that suggest the influence of Roman Polanski in every area except talent. Although Baby Love offers a little something for everybody-voyeurism, nymphomania, homosexuality, sadism-it does not really have enough of any one to appeal to anyone...
Raquel's kind of place, it turned out. Her third day on the Hollywood rounds she met Patrick Curtis, an ex-child actor turned pressagent. It was love (money?) at first sight. Recalls Raquel: "I saw him and he saw me and that kind of thing. I am a very impulsive lady." An earlier husband-a tuna fisherman-had been cut adrift by the time Curtis took over...