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Facts of Life sounds more like truth than filmdom. Here is my September 1960 vintage sonnet, "Were I His Mistress...
Were I his mistress I should...
...grotesquely awful than the lepers, given to misquoting tag lines from the great English anthology poets, and he is dead set on making Querry into another Albert Schweitzer, a sacred cow sanctified by journalism. With facts dug up from the newspaper morgue, involving the suicide of Querry's mistress, the correspondent is determined that his own Parkinson's Law ("A truth is a truth insofar as it is believed") will override the private legislation in Querry's dead soul...
...vast industrial domain, buys a husband, buys a divorce, buys a lover (Dennis Price). She is therefore astounded to discover that money cannot buy her the man she really wants, a humble Hindu medic (Sellers) who informs her mildly that he is "married to science," requires no mistress, and desires only "to be of some benefit to mankind." She offers him her body. He merely observes: "What an entirely perfect trapezius you have." In the end, though, she asks him to take her pulse-that is, to accept her vitality; and this he cannot refuse...
...Mistress of Mellyn, Holt...