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...Foreign Office, which not long ago returned the compliment by scotching plans to enter the movie in the recent Moscow Film Festival. Encouraged to know that the Banner of Blimpism (a blue funk on a field of choler) still flies, Britons by the thousands crowded in to see the spoof, and doubtless the film's American distributors would welcome a similar seal of disapproval from the U.S. State Department. At any rat Producers John and Roy Boulting, wh subverted the army in Private's Progress and big labor in I'm All Right, Jack, are as disrespectful...
...book turns luridly melo-traumatic when an interviewer commits rape-murder and suicide. The novel begins with the smile of a spoof-exposé, contorts to a smirk and very nearly ends as a smutty soap opera badly in need of soap. It is notable largely for the crass calculation with which author and publisher can manufacture an almost certain bestseller, as well as for one of its few serious points, made when Dr. Chapman is denounced as the egocentric charlatan he is: "You speak of love in numbers. Human beings are hardly numbers at all. No numbers...
...almost bare stage (set by Isamu Noguchi) dominated by a fantastical red classroom "barre'' that resembled a misshapen ironing board, five sets of dancers twisted in a brilliant but broadly exaggerated spoof of technical dance movements to Carlos Surinach's wittily parodistic score. At one point, three girls stood on the wide barre casually doing deep knee bends while three male members of the company lying beneath them mirrored the action in reverse. Choreographer Graham's part in the whole thing consisted of sulking behind a screen, emerging occasionally to freeze the whip-flicking ballet master...
...Havana. The movie version of Graham Greene's spoof-and-stiletto novel. Noel Coward, Alec Guinness...
...Havana. Alec Guinness and Noel Coward star in the film version of Graham Greene's spoof-and-stiletto novel...