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...movies, they are desensitizing us." She objects to a film like Straw Dogs because it equates violence and masculinity. Few psychiatrists would argue with her. Nor would they disagree with critics who object that filmed violence has become the ultimate trip, the stimulus for mind-blowing sensations wilder than any induced...
...story line is rather faithfully adapted from the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond film, Some Like It Hot. Two Depression-era musicians (Robert Morse and Tony Roberts) inadvertently witness the St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago. Scurrying for cover, they don women's dress and sign on with an all-girl band headed for Miami. Neither Morse nor Roberts tries to be a female impersonator. They are clearly men attempting, with no little difficulty, to masquerade as women. Thus the show relies not on drag jokes but adjustment-crisis humor-how to cope with broken straps...
...long Northcliffe had been going mad, and why exactly, no one knows. "The effect of illness was to coarsen his personality by letting its wilder elements escape," Ferris notes. Messages to his editors grew wilder. He traveled incessantly: Australia, Japan, India, back to France. There Northcliffe discovered that an employee, summoned over from London, did not have a suitable silver-fitted crocodile-leather suitcase. He promptly was given ? 150 to go back to London...
Some Like It Hot, you will recall, was the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond tale of two down-and-out musicians (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) who take refuge from some Chicago hoods by joining up with an all-girl band headlining Marilyn Monroe. It was, in every way, a winner, and if you're looking around for ways to spend your money, you might invest 15 cents on a TV Guide so that you don't miss the film next time it's on the tube...
Overseas, his punshots have gone wilder. While in Cairo before going on to Russia last year, he asked to visit the mosque containing Nasser's burial place. "After all," he said, "we're on our way to Mosque-Cow, aren't we?" At the tomb, when a member of his party removed his shoes according to Islamic custom and revealed a hole in his sock, Muskie shrugged: "We're in a holy place, aren't we?" When he learned that the Russians were being difficult and might not issue visas to his press entourage...