Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. An Indian playboy (Shashi Kapoor) wavers between his movie-star mistress (Madhur Jaffrey) and an English actress (Felicity Kendal) who is touring the provinces with a troupe of tatty Shakespeareans. But the real show is U.S. Director James Ivory's delicate study of fading British influence in India...
People react strongly to Hughes. "I'm supposed to be capricious, a playboy eccentric," he once said in his squeaky voice. He has been all that. Few men have seen him since 1952. He deals, often in the dead of night, over long-distance telephone lines or in cars parked on lonely roads or in chintzy hotel rooms, where he takes off his shoes, drapes his socks over the back of a chair, and talks in terms of millions...
...nine times larger than life, and relentlessly two-dimensional. One of the projections is Diogenes ("Dax") Xenos, diplomat, soldier, businessman, patriot, politician, international satyr and unintentional satire. Dax is to women what Dash is to washing machines: he makes them feel ten feet tall. His sometime pals, a French playboy and a White Russian con man, are not far behind in their technique: one of them receives a gold cigarette case from a female admirer inscribed delicately: 'To the world's greatest swordsman from his most grateful scabbard...
Although "Movie Worsts" has expanded in size and circulation, it will not replace the parody this year. Lewis said that the Lampoon will publish a "really splashy" Playboy parody for this summer. He expects it to be a 72-100 page magazine, complete with centerfold, and requiring a $10,000 capital outlay...
Lewis said that many Playboy parodies have been done, but that there haven't been any good ones. "We want to do it right," he concluded