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...actor gent from New York. Goes by the name of Sacchi, Robert Sacchi, and he's making a flick in L.A. called The Man with Bogart 's Face. It's all about this guy who takes the name of Sam Marlowe (clever, huh?), gets his puss fixed to look like the one and only, and becomes a private dick in Hollywood. Hires a secretary who could stop traffic on Sunset but has the brains of a flea, tangles with a midget, finds a stiff by the name of Horst Borsht, and runs into a Nazi. You know...
Felix is a puss in boots...
...team up, and the case of the missing puss-puss predictably leads them into a tangled web of blackmail, murder and all the other sordid goings-on that the back of any good dime novel promises. This set-up isn't half bad, pairing a slowed-down gum shoe with a hanger-on from the age of Aquarius. As a mere thematic gimmick, however, it's not too much less than half bad, and risks making you wish that directors would cut out these nostalgic and unimaginative throw-backs to the classics. But extra dimensions fast begin to fill...
...cards" (one to ten, based on looks) at the women coming in to dinner. These well-dressed "gentlemen" also flashed cards with insulting pictures and comments at the women who did not meet with their approval. Those who did win the "seal of approval" were greeted with flashes of "Puss in Boots," "orgasm," and other equally flattering endearments. The whole affair was very offensive to almost everyone; it was certainly very embarassing to the women coming into the dining room...
...occur that often, and Valenti might have run the other way had he seen Nixon headed toward him. But when Ford traveled across Lafayette Park to see Candice Bergen in a picture about Teddy Roosevelt's days called The Wind and the Lion, Valenti's beaming puss was captured for the morning readers right alongside Ford's. "It was just great," he said...