Word: minx
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respect but not with awe. The big moments of the book are all in the film, but the fictional furbelows are trimmed, and some dazzling cinematic doodads added. The camera sees much that Kazantzakis didn't, and the movie is often funnier than the book-Kedrova's minx emeritus, she of the floor-length eyelashes, frequent chins and raucous reminiscences is, for instance, a major comic creation. Zorba, of course, is the heart and soul of the show, and Quinn plays him to hellangone. In his finest frames, at the dominant moments of the drama...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A proper young lawyer and his minx of a wife are the explosively funny tenants of an apartment that makes the housing shortage look desperate...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A proper young lawyer and his minx of a wife are the explosively funny tenants of an apartment that makes the housing shortage look desperate...
...wangles a Vatican appointment for his bright young aide, but Fermoyle, inconsolable over Mona, gets a two-year leave from the priesthood. Such leave is rarely granted in fact, and even in the movie Fermoyle is still bound by vows of celibacy. While teaching in Vienna, he meets minx-eyed Fraulein Romy Schneider, who pledges herself to woo him away from God. He remains pure-his decencies are legion-but not without a struggle. "I cannot ask you to kiss me while you are still married to the church," Romy purrs, "but in Vienna it is a sin even...
Piece Period, the troupe's second number, is a tart, witty spoof of people and places, Italian, Spanish, French, English, German. In one of its six segments, Dos, an adventure-bent minx, appears in a saucy blue corselet with a black lace fringe. She is hounded, and eventually grounded, by twin Mrs. Grundys in black mantillas who shadow her every move on angry little sandpiper feet, then go skittering triumphantly off, presumably to tell the neighbors all about...