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...been led to believe that the best team won (in this case Harvard) by a considerable margin. No ifs, ands, or buts. Well, sad to say, sports fans, the real world is not so convenient, simple and pure (How can it be when Ivory Snow poster girl becomes a porno queen...
Likely Prey. The cameras were put in last September because the Great White Way was in danger of becoming the great dark way. Legitimate theaters and respectable restaurants have been imperiled by an invasion of porno movie houses, peep shows, sleazy eateries and a grab bag of other dubious enterprises. Understandably, this kind of low-life smorgasbord attracts some of the strangest night creatures ever to adorn a modern city. They range from nattily dressed black pimps in high heels to gaudily painted transvestites to the "Christmas-tree man," whose head, coat, shut and pants are festooned with tinsel...
...Linda Lovelace," says the longhaired actress hoarsely, "and I know what you want." However, before Los Angeles television viewers can jump to any conclusions, the porno-chic Deep Throat artist waves a man's oxford at them, and continues her spiel: "You're looking for comfort, variety and style. So I guess we have a lot in common. Like in shoes." It is the M. & J. Shoe Co. that has Linda Love-lacing up their product over the Southern California air waves, apparently reasoning that exploitation fits their purpose like-er-an old shoe...
...with memories of Fellini and Resnais and Bunuel, of Antonioni and claustrophobic chamber works by Bergman. But the movie's greatest debt is not to the preceding era's prestigious portraits of European decadence but to the laws of the universe--the ways of the world--as the porno movie sees them. Ferreri's is a porn epic in the grand manner, a mordant, chilling, hilarious dirty movie that, for sheer audacious lubricity, out-tangoes "Last Tango in Paris" and almost gives the devilish Miss Jones a run for her money...
SOMETHING OF THE same pattern attends the sale of sex. Beate Uhse has one of her famous "supermarkets" beside the ruin of the Memorial church, its posters offering "sunshine." Another shop in Europa Center displays whips beside the usual manuals and salves. Porno flicks, run continuously everywhere, including the once great screen palace "Metropol," with towers, great arches, and status in its stucco front...