Word: matador
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...Bobo. Peter Sellers, his fans may be happy to learn, is alive and living in Barcelona. There he sallies forth as a singing bullfighter impaled on the horns of a dilemma. A fop as a matador, a flop as a troubadour, he has decided to leave the corrida and seek a stage career. Down to his last peseta, he desperately accepts a dare by the local impresario (Adolfo Celi), who agrees to book him into his theater on one condition: Sellers must seduce Britt Eklund (Mrs. Peter Sellers offstage), an ice-cold big-league golddigger whose favorite phrase is "Mine...
...love. The morning after Sellers wins his wager, he confesses all in an orgy of guilt. Raging, the seducee marches him at shotgun point to a bathtub full of cerulean stain. Bobo is last seen in a bullfight poster proclaiming his indisputably unique credentials as "The Singing Blue Matador...
Sellers, the Melancholy Matador, sometimes gets a laugh. But after he loses the girl, he bumps gracelessly from parody into pathos. Sellers just doesn't belong to the Chaplin tradition. He's a fraudulent character like Groucho Marx, who brings a leer into every tearjerker moment. When the trickster look falls off Sellers' face, he's cooked...
...hardly a cry in the wilderness for intemperance. It ends on a slight touch of sadness, with both men realizing that liquor provides only temporary escape from a world as dismal as Tigreville. But along the way, there are some wonderfully mad, hilarious sprees. Belmondo is particularly fine playing matador to a highway full of cars...
...British claim that the name is no one's private property and that the non-Spanish brands are clearly so identified. Not always, objected the Spaniards, who hauled out a cartoon ad for "British Sherry" in which a matador shouts "Magnifico!" "Why a matador rather than a Devonshire lassie?" one judge asked. "The character in this cartoon," explained a man from Whiteways Cyder, one of the plaintiffs, "was misguided...