Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hypermasculine movie stars were in Paris to begin shooting the film in which they play two aging homosexuals. "It's the most exciting picture I've done in years," sighed Rex Harrison of his part in the movie adaptation of Charles Dyer's play, Staircase. "I love it," said Richard Burton, even though he has to wear a makeshift turban because the character he portrays is ashamed of his baldness...
...danger of overindulgence in superstition is that it breeds a kind of shortcut thinking. Already, TV commercials verge on magic: how does a deodorant differ from a love potion? Already, the incantations of New Left and New Right extremists echo the irrational chants of sinister shamans. No one has ever been hurt by tossing salt over his left shoulder; many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying "Om!" The trouble is that superstitions, like Occam's razor, cut both ways. Before Western man gets any more mystical, perhaps he should distinguish between superstitions that destroy tranquillity...
Comedies about love, sex and marriage always contain a slight element of the sadistic. What is often pure misery for the participants is pure merriment for the spectator. Watching other people go through hell seems to be fun. At least it is in Lovers and Other Strangers, a sort of diminutive Plaza Suite that consists of four diverting playlets not overly witty or wise but foaming with gentle laughter...
...second playlet, there is precious little mating or dancing. Johnny (Gerald S. O'Loughlin) and Wilma (Renee Taylor) have one of those marriages that resemble the state of chastity. This night, Wilma wants sex. But there is no love for Johnny, an advertising salesman who has just lost the Xerox account. As the pair bicker and belt each other a la Edward Albee's Virginia Woolf, it soon becomes clear that Wilma is twice the man Johnny is. Long ago, she kicked the living libido...
...Ghost and Mrs. Muir (NBC, Saturday, 8:30-9 p.m.). Like the 1947 movie, this series dwells on an ethereal love-hate relationship. The ghost, Captain Gregg, is a crusty old salt (when he materializes), who scares people away from his beach house. Along comes Mrs. Muir, her two children and a Hazel-like housekeeper. After a couple of showdowns, Mrs. Muir decides that Captain Gregg is more bluff than gruff, and he concludes that a spiritual affair is better than nothing at all. The Muirs stay. Even for viewers who don't turn on to ghosts, especially...