Word: sexpot
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This is a tale of three sisters. One is a spinster, one is a sexpot, and one is a screwball. The tangled web of relationships they weave possesses sprightly humor, zany logic, folksy warmth and a tincture of poignancy. The author's first full-length play and a Pulitzer prizewinner, Crimes of the Heart is a kind of in-depth soap opera that reveals character even as it unravels situations...
...sexpot sister Meg (Mary Beth Hurt) knows all about men ("I've had too many") but astonishingly little about herself. She rushed off to Hollywood because Old Granddaddy fostered the delusion that she could be a singing star. She became a pill-popping swinger and had a mental breakdown. The scar tissue shows in hard-boiled mannerisms and a terror of displaying "weakness...
...that Prince Charles' chosen would qualify for a Charlie's Angels sexpot role. At 5 ft. 10 in. (Charles is 5 ft. 11 in.), she is a blooming English rose, with a bounteous figure, shapely legs (as a back-lighted photograph of her in a Diaphanous dress showed clearly a few months ago), large luminous eyes, a sweet smile and the velvety skin and hair of a 19-year-old. Those qualities, plus her blushing innocence and aristocratic reserve, are what made her sexy, sophisticated debut such a stunner...
...plot follows the ceaseless tour of the "Caravana Rolidei," a hilariously low-rent travelling carnival under command of Lord Gypsey (Jose Wilker), a tacky magician impresario. With him is his lover Salome (Betty Farish), "the Rhamba Queen," a tawdry sexpot who moonlights as a hooker, and a Black deaf-mute muscleman named Swallow. When this troupe rolls into Pirhanhas they become the way out for an idealistic, accordion-playing farmboy. Cico (Fabio Junior), who fears an existence rooted in the sleepy backlands and joins the outfit with his pregnant young wife. The old pros and the innocents rattle together from...
...little Statue of Liberty. When you have utter evil on one side, you can't have mediocre good on the other." Principal, who is herself statuesque enough to have posed for a rearmed Venus de Milo, has been criticized by discriminating voyeurs for changing Pamela from a sexpot to a Gucci Two-Shoes; she replies, "I didn't want to upstage my own performance." Charlene Tilton, 20, plays Lucy, the Ewing niece, as if she were really the love child of Mae West. The British press has a nickname for this tiny terror of Southfork: "the Poison Dwarf...