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...Deep South was a different story. Not since Reconstruction had Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi sent a Republican to Capitol Hill. But in 1964, the only Republican on Mississippi's congressional ballot scored the state's greatest political upset in memory: Prentiss Walker, a hard-shell poultry farmer, ousted William Arthur Winstead, who had been in the House for 22 years. In rural Georgia, Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, a slick-campaigning textile millionaire, topped former Lieutenant Governor Garland T. Byrd, who was hurt by Johnson even though he had refused to go even halfway for L.B.J. In Alabama...
...World of Henry Orient is a precociously smart comedy that proposes juvenile innocence as an effective curb on adult delinquency. Chief delinquent is Peter Sellers, who as Concert Pianist Henry Orient attempts to seduce an undecided young matron (Paula Prentiss). Circling his prey in a lush Manhattan lair, he glances into the street, and blanches at what he sees: two diminutive furies, one as apple-cheeked and winsome as Heidi, the other an indescribable creature with sheep-dog hairdo, daredevil eyes, and a tacky mink coat that grazes her ankles. What do they want? "It's exactly the sort...
...Central Park they pretend to be "two beautiful white nurses" besieged by Chinese bandits. Merrie pokes a wad of bubble gum into Tippy's mouth. Poison. "When they try to ravish us, bite down," she orders. Then the nurses clamber up an escarpment and discover Sellers and Prentiss attempting a rendezvous on the rocks. From then on they bug Sellers, spoiling assignations and complicating the plot. They even scavenge his discarded cigarette butts and wrap them tenderly in a paper napkin. "No filter," notes Tippy. "He's not scared," observes Merrie...
...dollops of sentiment and a formula ending flaw the otherwise engaging and perceptive script by Nora and Nunnally Johnson. Though droll performances are rung up by Prentiss, Sellers and Angela Lansbury (as Tippy's pampered, promiscuous mother), all are up against a force of nature as potent as Disneyland. Director George Roy Hill is obviously happy to let the camera ogle while his half-pint scene stealers do their stuff. And why not? It's grand larceny...
...Actress Prentiss is an offbeat comedienne who sometimes spoils her flibbertigibbet appeal by straining for laughs that just aren't there. Maria Perschy, a German import who resembles Romy Schneider, plays Paula's roommate, which gives her a chance to carry messages back and forth and practice her English. The movie's chief support lies in a wagonload of outdoor gear supposedly borrowed from Abercrombie & Fitch. Of note to sportsmen is a pair of inflatable waders-step into a drop-off and the pants fill with air, quickly ballooning so big that they flip the occupant over...