Word: seraglio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian designers have their way, women in daytime will regress to the nursery, at nighttime emerge as denizens of a seraglio. Thigh-high beach dresses were decorated with traffic signs, arid hiking costumes were just right for a tramp. Cocktail dresses were turned out looking like high-rise first Communion dresses. Patrick de Barentzen used so many bows in the hair to complement his school smocks and jumpers that fashion viewers thought they were watching the children's wear showing...
...means to include such images; so what is more logical than to tuck a TV screen into a painting. Or at least so thinks Tom Wesselmann, 34, who fiddles with the girl who doesn't exist, the supersex symbol, the Great American Nude, and sets her in homey seraglio scenes decorated with real radiators. Lift the Venetian blind, and there is a calendar painting of a Japanese harbor. Or, as in one recent Nude, the whole scene is stamped out of multicolored translucent plastic and glows from within by electric lights...
...plot collapses around Shirley MacLaine, cast as a girl reporter who infiltrates the seraglio of King Fawz (Peter Ustinov) looking for a lewd scoop and discovers the missing Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) instead. One night, summoned to Fawz for fondling, Shirley rubs down with garlic, dons a fright wig, blacks out her teeth, stuffs upholstery under her skirts and bounces onto the sheik's bed screeching: "Come on, honey, ain't you gonna sing me a dirty song?" He doesn't, but if he did, it would be one of the movie's lesser offenses against taste...
...glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house. She also works for Aqua Velva. Joseph Cotten discusses the miracle of Bufferin, and so does Arlene Francis, for which each was paid $50,000. Imogene Coca appears for Armstrong Cork. Louis Jourdan, surprisingly, appears for Prell Shampoo. The Lustre-Creme seraglio has included Jill St. John, Juliet Prowse, Jeanne Crain, Jane Powell, Sandra Dee and Stella Stevens...
...bungles a CIA mission over the U.S.S.R. and bails out in the kingdom ruled by Fawz (Peter Ustinov), a peeved potentate whose son failed to make the Notre Dame varsity. Shirley MacLaine just happens to be at hand as a reporter getting a picture-magazine scoop inside the seraglio. The vengeful Fawz fields a football team of his own and blackmails Goldfarb into coaching it. An eager U.S. State Department sends the Irish to the Middle East, where they are wined, dined, wiggled at, and ultimately defeated (34-29) by the burnoosed bandits of Fawz...