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...never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat," said Joseph L. Mankiewicz last week, contemplating his 41 years in Hollywood. Mankiewicz, who won Academy Awards for both screenplay and directing in two pictures-Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950)-ruefully admitted that big-budget movies, à la his Cleopatra, which cost $40 million, are now out. "What they would like my next four films to be," he said, "are Easy Cowboy, Midnight Rider, Cowboy Rider and Easy Midnight." Mankiewicz has apparently...
...courts. In case of a divorce, British women often have no right to property acquired during marriage. This spring, Lib ladies picketed the Miss World Contest with signs reading MISUSED, MISCONCEPTION and MISGUIDED. Later they plastered lingerie ads with stickers saying "You earn more as a real whore...
After Michaels voted against the bill, one of his sons angrily called him "a whore," and at that point he began to have second thoughts. Furthermore, only one more vote was needed to pass the bill. After hours of angry debate, Michaels rose with tears in his eyes and switched his vote?thus giving New York the most liberal abortion law in the U.S. The young, the press and most women cheered, but Michaels knew what was in store. Roman Catholics were incensed; even fellow Democrats denounced his action. In the June primary, Michaels' constituents erased him from the Democratic...
...summer stock. Now the old cronies have teamed up again in The Cheyenne Social Club, a wonderfully outdated odyssey of bawdy innocence. True, the film is populated with more pasteboard characters than you could empty a pair of Colt Peacemakers at. There is not just one whore with a heart of gold, but six. There is the starched, parched lawyer feller and the inevitable gang of scabrous villains without a redeeming virtue to their sinister names. The dialogue is beautifully peppered with the buckshot of obscure Old-West metaphors (Harley: "I used to be a real cedar-breaker...
...sign, conceived in an earthy moment of beer-hall bonhomie, read: LINDSAY DROPS THE FLAG MORE TIMES THAN A WHORE DROPS HER PANTS. While there were no comparable uprisings elsewhere in the country, the rebellion of the hardhats seemed only the surface of a resentment that doubtless runs deep across the nation...