Word: madams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting in Victoria, campaigning Prime Minister Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was interrupted by a woman who asked what he proposed to do for young married people. "Madam," Menzies shot back, "I gather you are neither young nor married...
...story begins, Fanny is a 15-year-old Lancashire lass who arrives in London and promptly falls into the clutches of a sporting-house madam. Her subsequent adventures are detailed in prose that misses nary an 18th century curlicue. Of one memorable orgy for eight, she relates: "It is to be noted that, though all modesty and reserve were banished from the transaction of those pleasures, good manners and politeness were inviolably observed; here was no gross ribaldry, no offensive or rude behavior, or ungenerous reproaches to the girls." After enjoying many another "well breath'd youth, hot-mettled...
Peter Falk is the one delight in the cast. He has a strong career ahead as "the man you love to hate." Miss Winters is atrociously miscast as a madam, and the motley assortment of psychotics, prostitutes and morons that round out the acting credits will go better unmentioned...
...nose--and get into something roomier than the shockingly indecent tights he has been asked to wear. Carol Schectman gives us a plump-cheeked, milkmaid, Putney-girl Isabella and somehow makes a two-dimensional part seem barely one-dimensional. Jacqueline Winer transforms Mistress Overdone into an inaudible New Orleans madam of the steamboat days; the accents of W.D. Hart's Provost are alternately refined and repulsive; Alfred Guzetti is a childish Elbow; Stanford M. Janger an exhausted Lucio. There are also an Escalus and a Barnadine...
...Balcony. Jean Genet's allegory of life as a bawdy house where men buy illusions at the price of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam who knows what her customers want...