Word: zouzou
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...girl from St. Louis who wowed Paris as an erotic free spirit, beguiles again in a Kino collection (April) that includes Siren of the Tropics, Zouzou and Princess Tam-Tam. Another form of volcanic energy was unleashed in the '50s TV shows headlined by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. A package of their zaniest work, When TV Was Funny (Feb. 8), should prove that the French are not fou in their amour de Jer. This year will mark 50 years since the death, at 24, of the movies' all-time tragic man-boy, James Dean. A DVD will package...
...those afternoons, Chloe (ZouZou), former girlfriend of a former friend, visits him in his office, first begging for a job, then mounting a seductive siege upon him. Chloe is a rootless Bohemian who hops from one night club job to another with sophisticated promiscuity. Though Frederic disapproves of her life style, her availability during his empty afternoons subdues his initial queasiness. The rest of the movie becomes a teased out elaboration of the question, will Frederic or will he not sleep with Chloe? He sees her daily, wines and dines her, lies to his wife when he arranges his rendez...
...from one enriching experience to another. From hoopla with Houpflé to Unsinn with Zouzou, from Paris to Lisbon, from an elevator to a marquisate-it is all intended to be good, brisk picaresque, but somehow (perhaps partly because of the turgid English subtitles), it sounds more like bad libretto...
...great stone mansion in Garden City, Safsaf was lonely. He asked to be helped into the Cadillac and driven to Mena House. There he rapped on Zouzou's door, saying, "It's me, Mustafa!" He rapped and rapped, but there was no answer. Sympathetic servants brought the old man a chair, and for another half hour Safsaf sat down and pounded in comfort...
...last Zouzou let him in; family, doctors and lawyers soon followed and a parley ensued. Brokenheartedly, Safsaf promised a divorce, whereupon Zouzou coldly agreed to go back to her gilded cage in Garden City...