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...Beautiful People made the opening-night party for a Broadway gobbler called The 90 Day Mistress, but there was a pretty good assortment of Not-Too-Homelies: Tony Perkins, Joan Fontaine, Charlotte Ford Niarchos, Tallulah Bankhead, Gore Vidal and Joan Bennett, all of them crushed into a Manhattan nightclub no larger than an orgone box. Best job of capturing the jaded eye was turned in by Angela Lansbury, 42, Broadway's ever-eccentric Mame, who was clad in an all but invisible microskirt. Angela's big news was that she had just turned down a movie role...
...belle epoque, the courtesan was queen and her clients were often kings. In The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in 19th Century France, Author Joanna Richardson selects an all-Second Empire team of les grandes horizontals. Her standards are stringent by definition: "A courtesan is less than a mistress and more than a prostitute. She is less than a mistress because she sells her love for material benefits; she is more than a prostitute because she chooses her lovers...
Stamp's character is even more complex than Miss Christie's, vet is explained as little as hers. After the death, in childbirth, of the girl who had been his mistress, Stamp leaves Miss Christie and presumably drowns himself. He comes back, however, in a carnival Miss Christie attends and manages through elaborate efforts to keep her from recognizing hem. Why, then, does he return to her home to claim her in the next next scene? The fault is not Stamp's. He plays his part well, with touches of malice and touches of humanity, but with the script...
...from the women. Like many of Shaw's women, the two female cabinet members--Amy Sue Allen and Phyllis Ward--are clearer thinkers than the men. Miss Allen, as the strait-laced Lysistrata, and Miss Ward, the giggly Amanda, are both very good. And Norma Levin, as Magnus' grand mistress Orinthia, plays her scene with Tigar magnificently...
...Pilate the satisfaction of killing Judas, and the further mercy of believing that the Crucifixion never took place at all. Thus does the Devil bless mankind by giving it a comfortable lie by which to live. The Master can forget his obsession and remains in peace with his beautiful mistress Margarita (who has given up a promising career as a witch for his sake). But Bulgakov makes clear his own belief: Pilate's guilt, an expedient cowardice that allows power to destroy good men, still lies on Russia...