Word: xaviera
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...reprehensible, it begins to lose its shame when it becomes big business. Men who were "in trade" used to be socially blighted. Acting, as long as actors were poor, was considered a dishonorable occupation for centuries--until mass audiences and later the silver screen turned actors into billionaires. When Xaviera Hollander announced that she had struck it rich, she was asking the world to take a new, mostly false look at prostitution. Her book took the profession out of the underworld and executive suites People may have groaned and snickered, but they read the book...
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...
There is not a great deal to say about this pea-brained adaptation of a best-selling paperback by Xaviera Hollander, once secretary of the year in The Netherlands and, more recently, New York City's most prominent madam. In the old days, the book might have been called "spicy," delving as it does into the intimate details of the author's more elaborate entanglements. The movie-rated a no-risk R-is short on specifics of any sort and stringently unimaginative. If anything, it seems to be trying comedy, although not even that is certain...
...awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho is like granting Xaviera Hollander (the Happy Hooker) an award for extreme virtue...