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...this is amiable in its vaporous way is best explained in two words: Art Carney. Carney is a master of comic body English: when he stumbles over a table in the flickering, candlelit murk of a coffeehouse and barks at the bohemian proprietor like a wounded seal, "Are you OPEN?", he is inexpressibly funny. As lovable as Carney's philistine brute is Elizabeth Ashley's collegiate beauty, perfumed with dew-behind-the-ears charm. Between them, these two duck a good many of the script's incessantly bursting soap bubbles...
...steams with heat. It is like a raft in the green sea of the Mexican jungle, a vision of the end of the world for people at the end of their rope. Gradually, a quartet of life's castaways assembles. Maxine Faulk (Bette Davis) is the recently widowed proprietor of the hotel, a spitfire sensualist who regards her unbuttoned-to-the-waist body as her soul. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal) is an alcoholic, defrocked minister who herds lady-tourists off the guidebook route, but is himself spooked by bottomless guilt. Hannah Jelkes (Margaret Leighton...
...glossy Tatler (circ. 60,000), the Sphere (50,000) and the 119-year-old Illustrated London News (79,000)-and the deal was conducted with the usual Thomson aplomb. As he prowled about Britain looking for properties to buy, Thomson crossed the path of the group's proprietor, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 51, a recluse so unsociable that he has been photographed only three times in 30 years. An indefatigable voyager, Sir John usually travels incognito, often signing on as seaman on one of his own merchant ships. For all his eccentricities, he has demonstrated a remarkable affinity...
Though the bar is located in an old, dark building on a narrow side street off the Place Vendome, Americans still seek it out as if Harry's were another tourist spot like the Louvre, and on U.S. election nights the proprietor installs a Teletype machine so that people can watch the results...
...wife in Houston (pop. 925,000). This is due in part to Mrs. Dougherty's habit of flying to Paris every once in a while for a clothes-shopping visit of some three or four days." Even in Dallas' suburban S & S Tea Room, says the proprietor, "when the temperature drops below 90, out come the minks...