Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their troubles seem unreal alongside the slapstick that went before. Instead of a jolting contrast between violence and comedy, as in Bonnie and Clyde, we have an annoying contrast between soap opera and farce. Violence may be akin to farce, but too much violence is confusing. The glorification of the outlaw's life, only partly tongue-in-check, also weakens the humor. The film subtly encourages the puerile anti-hero-worship it meant to spoof...
...hard to say where the spoof ends and the soap opera starts. After Butch and Sundance flee to Bolivia, a sterile melodrama sets in. The script now embraces such weighty matters as the alienation of the cowboy from modern society, the alienation of the outlaw from repressive society, and various other alienations. In other words, alienation-a good theme, but a little too ponderously applied to this wisp of a comedy...
...Marcus Welby, M.D. Welby is an old-fashioned general practitioner, but Executive Producer David Victor plays him off against what he calls a "very 'now' young assistant" (James Brolin) who makes house calls on a 650-c.c. motorcycle. The first episode was about as good as U.S. soap opera ever gets: Can the "now" junior G.P., who mistakenly diagnoses a pretty young schoolteacher's terminal brain tumor as a psychosomatic "sex hang-up," make his peace with her before she dies...
...every newborn baby in line for the de luxe set of toilet articles (talcum powder, oil, cologne, cleansing milk, soap and a small embroidered towel) that goes for $35. But those in the market for a single diaper (emblazoned, of course, with the Dior griffe) can get away for only $3; a gold safety pin to go with the Diorpers costs an extra $3. Price, obviously, is of small issue to the small issue of Morocco's King Hassan; his three daughters are regular "Baby Dior" patrons, as are Iran's Prince Reza (for whom Bohan designed...
...mixed. Ironically, some of the criminals of Auschwitz got off "extremely lightly" because the rules of evidence, which the Nazis had scrapped, had been reimposed in the name of justice by the Allies. Most Nazis were soon issued their Persilscheine ("whitewash slips," a name derived from a brand of soap powder). Modern Germany is run by the Persils and former members of another swiftly exonerated group, the Mussnazis (Nazis by necessity). Sad to say, the minority of truly non-Hitlerite Germans have taken little part in the life of West Germany from 1945 until today. "Ohne mich" ("Count...