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...suggestion that she might be involved in scandal would have appalled Mary Jo Kopechne. Then it might have amused her, for she was often kidded for not being a swinger. Girlish and gung-ho, she led a life that revolved around the Catholic Church, politics and the Kennedy family. Mary Jo, as everyone who knew her agreed last week, was the girl next door, or perhaps the tomboy, who played catcher on the office softball team. When she took her first Capitol Hill job in 1963, working for Florida's Senator George Smathers, there was a standing joke that only...
Want to see a dirty joke? Well, there is a young widow (Catherine Spaak) who finds out that her late husband was a real swinger. He left her his private flat designed for orgies, complete with floor mirrors, and an elaborate camera setup for making movies of all the fun. Copy of Krafft-Ebing in hand, the wide-eyed widow goes through all the paces, developing a real yen for the "Aristotelian perversion." Only a strong, sober and steadfast physician (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is able to set her straight. But-surprise-he digs Aristotle too. That isn't much...
...heaven or hell in his own way," he says. Hefner himself is trying for heaven. What is more, the mass producer of plastic-wrapped sex, the purveyor of pop hedonism, the great anti-Puritan who is out to make every square feel that he too can be a swinger, is looking for a heaven less in the style of Playboy than the Saturday Evening Post. "You know," says Hef wistfully, "in the next ten years I would rather meet a girl and fall in love and have her fall in love with me than make another hundred million dollars...
...famous Polaroid "Big Swinger"--one of many of the Coop's famous brand name cameras. The Ideal Christmas Gift...
...wounded bird, in the manner of Darling or Poor Cow. But Director Same, who also wrote the script, has given it purpose and individuality by flashing back and forth through Joanna's life, ransacking her dreams, exploring her past and minutely exposing the style of a swinger with inventive images that linger in the retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed by the lyrics that Pop Poet Rod McKuen composed to match his banal score. But Same makes...