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...WOMAN. Man's inhumanity is the theme of this squalid but often hilarious Italian comedy about a punk promoter and his wife, a girl covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...
...Wellington (Sammy Davis) is a Harlem nobody who wants to be a Big Town somebody, a punk with a yen for a penthouse and all the other Cadillacto-caviar goodies. His aims would immediately classify him as the crassest sort of bourgeois philistine if the musical were not cloaked in the topical sanctity of racial protest...
...WOMAN. Man's inhumanity is the theme of this squalid but often hilarious Italian comedy about a punk promoter and his wife, a girl covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...
...face was plain to see. His fingers had become bloodied and were bandaged from shaking so many hands. He had also gone through some security scares. In Phoenix, one young man had been arrested when police found him carrying a loaded .22-cal. revolver under his coat. Another young punk bashed the President with a Goldwater sign. The sign creased Lyndon's hat; the President thought it was an accident, but others were not so sure, and the fellow was arrested...
...begins a parable both squalid and sublime. The greedy little punk displays the creature as "a monster trapped in Africa, half woman and half ape." When he cracks his whip she gibbers like a monkey, rattles the bars of her cage, jumps around in a tree. To ensure his income, he marries the monster and hustles her off to Paris, where he sells her as a stripper ("The Hairy Angel") to appease the public appetite for the peculiar. One day the poor thing finds herself pregnant. "Oh well," he reflects philosophically. "Maybe the baby will be a monster too. Then...