Word: playboyism
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Parodies continued to be a main focus of Lampy attention in the late 60's with the publication of Time, Life, and Playboy issues...
While most cities concentrate on the number of viewing options provided by a bidder--such as Home Box Office and the Playboy Channel, the Cambridge cable television competition has been dominated by the issue of public access to the eventual cable franchise...
...COMPLETE fulfillment of this desire this greedy expectation which engenders such questions as. "So, then the lover who speak is really you, Roland Barthes?" (Playboy. 9 77), would result in a "perversion" of sorts. As it is, we remain disengaged but eventually innocent, legitimate spectators rather than accomplices, "Perversion," Barthes says, "quite simply, make one happy": though this may be a principle of "bliss," a certain "pleasure" lies with this chaste silence. "Your question is a good one, not because I have an answer ready, but because it touches on something absorbing...
...Jourdan has starred in; films as diverse as Madame Bavary, Can-Can, and the Silver Bears, played everyone from a BBC Dracula to a sinister would-be James Bond nemesis in Octopussy. For anyone who has ever seen the MGM movie classic Gigi, Louis Jourdan is Gaston, the inveterate playboy with interminable ennui. To fixate momentarily on his Gallic features summons up visions of Jourdan-Gaston beside the original Honore (Maurice Chevalier) forever repeating. "It's a bore...
...Hewitt deliver the most uneven performance as Gaston. The playboy with a coeur has always been a difficult one, especially when further tainted with heavy ennui. Jourdan never allowed this boredom to turn to bitterness, but like so much else in this production, the bitterness, but ershadows the sweet. Jourdan made even boredom elegant; Hewitt practically expectorates the chorus "It's a bore" as if he were sending his garcon back with some ill-prepared pleasant...