Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live and love by no rules but my own," said Brigitte Bardot, 30, and the rules of this particular ménage had a certain touch of Bronx Zoo. On location with Co-Stars Jeanne Moreau and George Hamilton for Viva Maria! in Cuernavaca, B.B. set up housekeeping in a sumptuous villa with a whole menagerie of cuddly companions: a dog, a rabbit, two ducks, a chicken, and Playboy Bob Zagury, production assistant on the set, whose off-duty role sometimes gets pretty beastly. "Last night he was very angry," she told newsmen candidly. "The rabbit was very naughty...
...Mike Nichols touch, always deft, daft and droll, flicks The Odd Couple along at a dervish's pace. But it is Neil Simon's comic freshness of vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send...
...even after leading the Met through a decade of spectacular growth, Rorimer still prowls the museum like a bemused headmaster. Wearing ankle-high combat boots that go back to his Army days,* he roams the halls, wiping dust off display cases, bellowing "Please don't touch the art objects!" when kids tweak a sphinx's beard, or sternly lecturing an adult caressing a caryatid's curple: "That's 4,000 years old. If everyone who saw that had touched it, it wouldn't be here...
...Working with a diffused and he has molded his large cast into a brightly moving melange, which, except for a lapse after maintains a remarkably swift pace. Under his direction the Puddies handle a range of moves and dances with surprising assuredness. And his choreography and blocking reflect the touch of a professional (which indeed...
...begins to cry. Harry suddenly notes that Evie is not simply one of those eccentric biddies that you hate to sit next to on a plane. She is-well, a person. A real person. Back at the hotel several scenes later, their hands touch to the accompaniment of violins and a timely phone call. "I'm downstairs," snaps the widow. The script holds no further surprises...