Word: tomcat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best-known film, The Chelsea Girls-it earned $500,000-shows its huge-eyed heroines disporting in kaleidoscopic perversity; in I, a Man, one droll scene shows a pea-jacketed lesbian sneeringly turning down the tomcat antihero. Playing the lesbian in that film was Val Solanas, 28, who last year formed the Society for Cutting Up Men. Her S.C.U.M. manifesto begins: "Life in this society being at best an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system...
...picture with a bloody wonderful battle sequence, some splendid Taiwan shorescapes, a simperingly pretty leading lady (Candice Bergen), Not to overlook McQueen, a leading man who turns in the sharpest performance of his career. In a picture full of paper tigers, he exudes a none too subtle effluence of tomcat...
...chiefly by concentrating on Parks, whose passing resemblance to Laurence Harvey offers no insurmountable obstacle. Intense, slow-burning and confidently virile, he has a star actor's natural instinct for arousing curiosity about what he will do next. Parks pulls attention to himself like a vagrant, possibly savage tomcat whose animal responses need not be understood to be interesting. And he makes most of moviedom's clean-jawed young swains look about as dangerous as campfire boys...
...bright Christmasy gewgaw for the holiday trade. Sometimes it is a stray animal epic, sometimes a folksy romantic comedy, sometimes a wholesome teen-age adventure. This year it is all three, wrapped around the substantial screen presence of Hayley Mills, who goes gumshoeing on the trail of a criminal tomcat while her sister (Dorothy Provine) scrutinizes FBI Agent Dean Jones. Hayley nips through her role as though English accents were an absolute must among subdebs of Southern California, and Scrooge himself might unbend when she reports saucily to the FBI: "I have some information about one of your crimes...
...duchess, now 49, "was a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only be satisfied by a number of men." He named four specific adulterers: John Cohane, 50, a U.S. businessman living in Ireland whom the court described as a "self-confessed wolf" with "the morals of a tomcat"; Harvey Combe, 37. onetime press officer at London's Savoy Hotel; Baron Sigismund von Braun. 52, brother of Rocket Scientist Wernher, who was counselor of West Germany's London embassy until 1958, and is now his government's U.N. observer in New York; and an unidentified partner...