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...basic ingredients of dankness and soot, Parisian passengers have added an enchanting blend of garlic, tobacco, cheap cosmetics and the sweat of honest toil...
...Tennessee Williams (211 pp.; New Directions; $4.50). This collection of short stories wears the scent of human garbage as if it were the latest Parisian perfume. Peopled with male and female prostitutes, harridans and homosexuals, the book first appeared in 1948 in a deluxe limited edition of 1,500 copies, has since brought $50 a copy as a raffish collector's item. While the edition is now no longer limited, the guiding theme undoubtedly is. Author Williams, 40, best known for his plays, snaps his literary shutter again and again on portraits of the hero as cripple...
...France was busy fulfilling her own social obligations, including tea with Mrs. Eisenhower and a luncheon with Mrs. Dulles. Wherever she went, the Egyptian-born Lily Mendès-France was an instant hit-for her piquant beauty, her gentle good humor, and her dazzling wardrobe of Parisian gowns...
Director Brooks apparently thought the best way to simplify the movie would be to divide it into four equal parts. He merges sections dominated by Parisian scenes, Johnson gazing at Taylor, wild parties, and family conflict over the baby. The confusing result has been to leave the impression that The Last Time I Saw Paris is not much more than pointless meandering between a fake left bank bistro and a cardboard Arc de Triomphe...
Tasteless and labored, Dear Charles has just enough helpful lines and situations to serve Tallulah as a vehicle. If never the least bit Parisian, she is frequently lively. There are those sudden moments when her voice comes up like thunder, or she freezes with raffish hauteur, or has the charm of something caged and carnivorous. There are doubtless nobler ways of being unmistakable and unforgettable, but in a world where few people ever manage to be either, Actress Bankhead remain almost incessantly both...