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...strange streets and familiar beds, wandering from woman to woman, ending all his relationships with an easygoing "Ciao, baby." Except for that, he has little to say, and less to laugh about. His idea of humor is to retell the ancient jape of the man who asked his mistress, "Do you smoke after?", and received the answer, "I don't know. I'll look next time." Alan, whose ordinariness is well portrayed by Off-Broadway Veteran John Tracy, meanders from Manhattan's Lincoln Center at the beginning to Long Island's Montauk Beach at the finale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Celebrations of the Ordinary | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

When Augustine quit Carthage for Rome to pursue his career as a teacher of rhetoric, he took along his mistress Lucilla and their young son and left his pious mother at the church. Mother had been hoping for his conversion to Christianity. It was a sharp stroke in the struggle between sensual and spiritual forces within the young African intellectual. Still, the flesh had won only a battle-it lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Jun. 9, 1967 | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...funniest episodes, Art Carney demonstrates the simplest way to get away from a wife (Lucille Ball) for an evening with a mistress. He criticizes her cooking ("Pot roast? It tasted more like the pot than the roast!"), waits for her counterattack, then, acting wounded, stomps into the night on the town. In another, Joey Bishop is discovered in flagrante delicto by his outraged mate. "What bed? What girl?" he replies. While his wife shrieks, he calmly cleans up the room, whisks the girl out, then settles down to read in the living room. Faced with his bland denials, the wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Satyr Satire | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...three wealthy women: A loud-mouthed Hollywood actress (Edie Adams), a disdainful princess (Capucine), and a tough-talking Texan (Susan Hayward) who hates Venice ("All that water in those damn creeks"). In Hayward's wake comes a mousy nurse (Maggie Smith) who feeds her catty mistress sleeping pills every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Outfoxed | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...Honey Pot's sweetest moments come when Harrison is trading double entendres with his ex-mistress or pirouetting around his mansion like Nureyev on LSD. But even he cannot fix the film's flaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Outfoxed | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

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