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...enjoy The Towering Inferno, but the view that the movie itself is a monument to bullshit and concupiscence is unfounded. It's very easy to hype a popular film by calling it a cinematic masterpiece, as Pauline Kael has done so unfortunately with movies like Shampoo and Last Tango in Paris. The disaster film is an urban adventure, like a police or hospital melodrama, but the very magniture of the pseudo-events it chronicles--possible only on screen--give it a dignity beyond its intrinsic merit. When combined with an ingratiating morality, a wealth of invention in the heroism department...
...predictions, this was going to be THE year for Harvard baseball. I his was going to be the year that Harvard did more than a quick tango with the great teams of college ball before making an exit out the back door at the NCAA World Series in Omaha...
...Last Tango in Paris, at 5:15 and 9:45 p.m., and A Streetcar Named Desire...
...farce, tragedy or bathos? Maria Schneider, 22, star of Last Tango in Paris, signed herself into a psychiatric hospital while filming Carlo Ponti's The Babysitter in Rome. Not for treatment, but simply to be with her inseparable companion of the past two years, Joan ("Joey") Townsend, 28, the daughter of ex-president of Avis Robert Townsend, who wrote Up the Organization. Joan had been picked up that morning at Fiu-micino Airport, babbling irrationally. On learning that her friend had been taken to a psychiatric hospital, Maria rushed to join her. The following three days were macabre. Paparazzi...
...terrific publicity campaign has turned Emmanuelle into a box office success rivalling that of Last Tango, by promising racy respectability ("X you can take your wife to") and a certain intellectual stimulation ("The most sensual part of your body is your mind). The poster earnestly assuages embarrassment and guilt, promising that "after the film is over you don't find yourself making a hasty departure while scrupulously avoiding eye contact." The great success of these ploys, along with the material opulence and glibly amoral tone of the film, is a clue to what the movie was meant to accomplish. Jaeckin...