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VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Numb is the only thing viewers are likely to feel after this film version of Jacqueline Susann's bestselling novel about three semi-recognizable pill-swallowing show-biz sickies in Hollywood's nightmare valley...
Ghastly Embrace. In numb horror, the other survivors stumbled out to look for wives, children and friends. They held handkerchiefs and cabbage leaves to their faces to ward off the smell of burnt flesh that hung over everything. One by one the dogholes were emptied, giving up the fire-red, bloated, peeling remains of human beings. Charred children were locked in ghastly embrace, infants welded to their mothers' breasts...
...impenetrable chaos. Subterranean Homesick Blues. Don't string the facts from the clothes line pole of conventional conceptions, don't order them with pliers of cause and effect. Just put them together--and they'll scare you. His experiment suggests how easy it is to let out ragged wild, numb wild thoughts, how close we already are to slipping into chaos. And his persistent question...
...convincingly and boasting authentic-sounding accents. Even the accents that wouldn't fool a Midlands mockingbird are consistent, and that is what counts. Best of all, this production somehow catches the gypsy superstition and ballady poetry of the play, and never lets the numberless moments of high passion numb the audience...
...limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter is hours away from a hospital, he may even be able to perform the emergency surgery himself, because snake venom acts as a mild local anesthetic and leaves the bite area numb...