Word: sexpot
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...that she was a splendid weeping willow but not much else. No one said that any more after they saw her in Separate Tables, playing both a repressed spinster and a glamorous high-fashion model. In Sweet Bird of Youth, she was a supremely fading beauty, the sharded Hollywood sexpot with her heart on her thigh. Her manner and expression are so mobile, in fact, that it is possible to see four pictures of her in four different roles and not know it is the same woman. Even though she will feign annoyance with movie directors for "shooting me from...
...film also introduces to our shores Miss Barbara Windsor, who rose to stardom in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be. Playing the unfaithful wife, she is a stunning sexpot (measurements 38-22-35) with a remarkable platinum poodle-pompadour (not a wig either), Britain's talented answer to the dumb-blonde Judy Holliday of Born Yesterday. (Incidentally, Miss Windsor will appear as a guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show on television tomorrow night...
...gear and brave enough to make like a space comic hero in an asbestos suit along the hot galleries of the shelter. The tycoon's blonde daughter. The tycoon's colored butler-old-fashioned enough to do a bit of praying. The butler's honey-colored sexpot daughter. The Japanese gardener's son. A dreamy Hawaiian-Chinese girl. An Italian-American gangster-gigolo type with a switch knife. A gas-meter reader. An Ivy League dope engaged to the tycoon's daughter...
...other excellent pictures (Elmer Gantry, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), and some that are at least artistically ambitious (Shadows, The Savage Eye). But these are the exceptions. At the other end of the scale are such lurid Z pictures as Albert Zugsmith's The Beat Generation, and Sexpot Goes to College. The point is that these are no longer drastically different from many quality productions...
Back in England, Ellis toyed with the idea of entering the Anglican ministry, but lost his faith and then decided to become a physician, which he eventually did. He became absorbed in a cult, the Hinton circle. Its late founder, James Hinton, had been a blend of crackpot and sexpot. Under the doctrine of "service," Hinton preached polygamy and practiced promiscuity among lonely women and errant wives. High-minded Havelock saw in this only a band of free spirits snapping the moral chains of Victorian bondage. He adopted the Hinton motto, Fay ce que vouldras (Do What Thou Wilt...