Word: lovesickness
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Bartel, making his feature debut, exhibits a great deal of somewhat perverse and not necessarily admirable skill. Private Parts tends to be short on horror and long on kinky grue, like a gross animated cartoon. Its most outrageous scene is one between a lovesick voyeur and an inflatable plastic dummy. The distributors, MGM, are keeping quiet about Private Parts. One can appreciate their apprehension...
Star Spangled Girl declares itself fervently in favor of mindlessness in all forms. Despite herself, the girl falls for one of the journalists. She boards a Greyhound for her home in Cypress Gardens, Fla., presumably in order to recover from her passion. The lovesick radical pursues her on his motorcycle and woos her off the bus by vowing to take her home and make her a sex object, an appeal that for some unexplained reason enchants...
...Westerners, her voice sounds like the siren call of a lovesick cat at midnight. When Egypt's Um Kalthoum sings on Cairo radio, however, the entire Arab world falls into ecstasy...
...with just the right sort of strutty assurance. Mindless beauty is embodied by Pamela Tiffin as the victim's turned-on daughter and by Robert Wagner as a glamour-boy private pilot, both up to their pearly ears in self-parody. Arthur Hill adds knowing touches as the lovesick family lawyer, who hopes to bridge the years between himself and Pamela with the help of isometric exercises. Strikingly cast are Julie Harris as a ginmill songbird hooked on drugs, and Shelley Winters as a tubby former starlet whose sidelines include smuggling Mexican migratory workers into...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). In this cinema version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, lovesick Psychiatrist Jason Robards cannot save himself (or the film) from being destroyed by his psychotic wife and patient, Jennifer Jones. Intriguing for those who think Jung...