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...stresses of survival can be a mortal blow...
...overweight jogger clutches his chest and sinks painfully to the sand, his ticker in mortal distress. He will lie there-at first in pain, later in death-for most of S. O. B. That is because it is his misfortune to have been taking his exercise in the world capital of self-absorption, the beach at Malibu, where movie people tend their tans, mend their deals and bend their minds with all sorts of curious additives. Dying is something that happens to your friend's act in Vegas or your rival's picture in Gotham. It is acceptable...
...central story locks two great financial houses, Struan & Co. (the "Noble House") and Rothwell-Gornt, in a mortal struggle. Throughout, playing off the rivals, are an American entrepreneur and his 26-year-old female partner, an executive sweet who seems a bit anachronistic for 1963. For readers who tire of bank runs and stock manipulations, the author weaves in an elaborate spy story that involves the CIA, the KGB, Britain's MI-6 and the spy networks of both Chinas. The sex is rather decorous, but for sports buffs, there are rousing horse races. And the roiling cast...
...stuff in this movie. For a warm-up, you travel to Paris, where Lois has somehow gotten herself trapped in an elevator that not only has a nuclear bomb in it, but is also plummeting to earth from the top of the Eiffel tower. No job for a mere mortal. In the process of disposing of the explosive, Superman unwittingly allows the three chief villains of this saga to escape...
...tough with Clark, who follows her around like a puppy, but never pretends that she could love anyone but the Superstud. Confronted by her main man, she melts like ice cream and later elarns to appreciate him even when he is reduced to the most handsome mortal hunk you could ever wrap two arms around. Reeve plays the protagonist with an appropriate blends of righteousness, courage, confusion (over how to tow in Lois without blowing his cover), and, above all else, good humor. Neither has many lines to mouth; dialogue is kept to a merciful minimum throughout...