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CACTUS FLOWER. Like most Gallic romantic comedies, this farce is based on three things: lies, lies, lies. A Don Juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) tells them with aplomb. His gullible mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) accepts them with compassion. And his waspish nurse (Lauren Bacall) uncovers them with delight...
...trooped Liz, Dick and butler to the rescue. The butler bravely ascended the fir, but when he started down with Charlie, the cat squirmed loose, plummeting onto Liz's head and misbehaving on the spot. Then the butler's ladder fell, also clonking Charlie's mistress. Good grief. Charlie Brown...
CACTUS FLOWER. Like most Gallic romantic comedies, this farce is based on three things: lies, lies, lies. A Don Juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) tells them with aplomb. His gullible mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) accepts them with compassion. And his waspish nurse (Lauren Bacall) uncovers them with delight...
...highest law officer, who normally prosecutes only major espionage cases, was on hand to try a criminal case. For another, a newly erected shield of bullet-resistant glass surrounded the prisoners' dock. Behind the glass sat the defendants: Ian Brady, 28, a skinny stock clerk, and his blonde mistress, Myra Hindley, 23, a shorthand typist. Both pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering a 17-year-old youth and two children whose bodies were exhumed late last year from shallow graves on the desolate Saddleworth moor near Manchester...
...ordinary legal or moral way, but is unhinged by guilt. Glimpses of his previous history indicate that he has enjoyed a sort of vicarious pleasure in the love affairs of his students and friends. He has had a doggish don's weekend in London with a former mistress, an affair that seems to have done no harm; yet, without apparent cause, his wife falls desperately ill in his absence. In one episode, a parody of war is enacted by rich undergraduates at a great country house; the aristocracy, we are told in a blurred Freudian attribution, is good only...