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Irma La Douce. Director Billy Wilder maintains that prostitution can be fun, and Shirley MacLaine goes along with the gag. Jack Lemmon, as her Rover Boy lover boy, mugs magnificently as he bumbles about his business of trying to make Shirley go straight...
...List, the White House announced the names of 31 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest peacetime U.S. civilian honor, awarded to only 24 persons since 1945. Hidden away among such names as Ralph Bunche, Pablo Casals, Felix Frankfurter, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George Meany and Thornton Wilder were a few less well-known, though no less deserving. Among them: Genevieve Caulfield, 73, "a one-woman Peace Corps," blind since birth, who has founded and tirelessly run a much-needed school for the blind, first in Thailand and now in Viet Nam; Robert J. Kiphuth, 72, Yale...
Hope is a bogus bwana who writes reams about his African adventures but has actually never been anywhere wilder than the Museum of Natural History. Drafted by the CIA, he is sent to the Congo to recover a moon capsule that went slightly off course. The Russians send Anita Ekberg, a bumptious intelligence agent, to waylay him. "If you are captured," Hope is instructed, "take a cyanide capsule. Death is instantaneous and clean." Hope gulps: "You mean, no side effects...
Irma La Douce. Director Billy Wilder maintains that prostitution can be fun. and Shirley MacLaine goes along with the gag. Jack Lemmon. as her Rover Boy lover boy, mugs magnificently as he bumbles about his business of trying to make Shirley go straight...
Irma La Douce is no animated French postcard; its sexiness is played for belly laughs, not snickers. By pruning the script of prurience, Wilder and Diamond have managed to treat the sale of sex with vulgar good humor. Irma has no moral, of course; yet as an essay on virtue v. venery, it is as uplifting as a graduation address-and ten times funnier...