Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the journey to nowhere, Sellers displays a few glimmers of the comic genius that once made him seem like a chip off the old Chaplin, notably in a hilarious Spanish-Yiddish-English brouhaha involving his mother and eleven Mexican whiplash-injury clients. But most of the time, the movie reduces him to elephantine gestures and TV-sized jokes. As he runs into the fadeout, a passing hippie asks him where he is going. "I don't know," Sellers answers. "There must be someplace." The line sums up both this meandering movie and the flickering career of a gifted...
...feature length with one-dimensional plots. Unlike conventional grind-circuit skin shows, enlightenment movies approach sex with Teutonic seriousness, even though their accounts of reproduction and related matters are illustrated with explicit nude sequences. In Helga, the first Aufklaerungsfilm to be shown in the U.S., a robust young mother emerges from her shower just as her towheaded son enters the room to ask: "Where do babies come from?" Answers Mother, toweling herself: "Mutti's vagina opens and the baby slips out." The child looks satisfied, but whether from the answer or the revealing view of Mutti is hard...
...enlightenment-movie business. Among the titles that have been doing boffo business in Germany are Miracle of Love, The Perfect Marriage, and You, an account of masturbation and its tension-easing benefits narrated by Dr. Wolfgang Hochheimer of Berlin's Pedagogical Academy. Actress Ruth Gassmann, the unabashed mother of Helga, was quickly signed up to star in a pair of sequels: Helga and Michael, the story of a courtship from first kiss to consummation, and Helga and the Sexual Revolution, in which the heroine discovers the orgy...
...only much less strenuous than high school band practice, it is-for her-much more fun besides. Perkins initially has his doubts that homicide can be just a joyride, but Tuesday leads him on to even more glorious heights: together, they gun down her henna-rinsed virago of a mother (Beverly Garland) and light out for Mexico...
...Tondel has mothered band members for nineteen years, and the band would like her to stay forever. "Alice really is a mother to most of us," manager Robert D. Whittemore '69 said this week. "She attends every practice, and is always there if you need her, providing little things a male usually forgets...