Word: xaviera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's more, if you can believe it, she's still a good girl. Lynn Redgrave as Xaviera a is properly blonde, well-built and fun-loving, but Mary Tyler Moore would have been more in keeping with the director's intentions; the film is as close to a family sit-com as he could get without completely disguising the subject matter. Xaviera first becomes interested in hooking through a man who tells her. "The most satisfying work, and the most difficult, is when you work to make other people happy." And her eyes light up. She loves to make...
...FILM makes no big statements and doesn't pretend to. Its little statements are abundant, and its little morals are taken from the traditional lore of a capitalist society, Xaviera finally builds up a large, bustling establishment and becomes so caught up in running the business that I lost touch with my customers." We see her wandering forlornly through her crowded parlor, where no one has time to talk to her, trailing listlessly upstairs, and falling asleep at her desk, 'too tired to join my own Christmas party." Just in case anyone out in the audience is beginning...
...people, if they remember nothing else about the book, will remember her earnest assertion that you can always tell the size of a man's sexual organ's by the length of his fingers. The I've been there and back narrative of the real Xaviera may have been inane, but the movie is so clean it's almost godly--and Doris Day could have played this whore and not batted a sanctimonious eyelash...
...Xavier's one-time fiance, an incurable mama's boy who cured her of marriage forever, and her clients, who ask to be whipped, stroked, licked, played with, or just listened to. However normal they may be at work and at home, they bring their neuroses and loneliness to Xaviera. She and her girls minister to their needs while passing knowing smiles to each other behind the men's backs. Secure in their aloofness and a sense of superiority, the women dispense maternal care in its oddest forms, and the men go home happy. One client makes elaborate banana splits...
...XAVIERA DOESN'T escape with the image of Florence Nightengale and Mother Earth, She may like to make people happy, but it's clear that she also got into prostitution because she loves money, glamor, pretty clothes, and her own good bone structure. Far from saying anything specific about women, or about women prostitutes, the film is ambiguous enough to leave something for almost everyone. Traditionalists can see the movie as proof that, yeah, they really do like it, and that prostitutes are just typical women who want more money to spend on clothes. Others can see it as proof...