Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SINGER PRESENTS ELVIS (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Elvis writhes to some old favorites: Hound Dog, Love Me Tender, Heartbreak Hotel...
...form of slavery." While Thoreau figured that "the more money, the less virtue," Schopenhauer argued that "money alone is absolutely good" and Samuel Johnson declared: "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." The New Testament holds that love of money is the root of all evil, but Mark Twain reversed that adage into "lack of money is the root of all evil." Socrates said: "Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money." Gertrude Stein remarked: "As a cousin of mine once said about money, money is always...
...grand robbery mode (Charade, How to Steal a Million, Gambit, et al). But, for all these superficial indications, this movie has little to do with beautiful people or even money. Not only that, but it's a suspense film with little suspense; a comedy with few big laughs; a love story with no flesh. And Hot Millions characters are the kind of people Audrey Hepburn wouldn't be seen dead with...
...does play the flute for Marcus one night. And Marcus, not totally bereft of talent, plays the piano to accompany her. They fall in love, of course, and it's a scene that is something to see. The passion of two middle-aged failures finally breaking through the lone-liness of their lives can be much more exciting than Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway playing an erotic game of chess...
...jokes provided in the Ustinov-Ira Walach screenplay are unfailingly gentle, and, in the case of some bits involving Robert Morley and Casar Romero, quite funny. What the film lacks in physical beauty and glamour, it replaces with humour and heart. I'll take two inarticulate bumblers falling in love while their dinner burns over two rich sex-symbol thieves any day in the week...