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Hurricane Audrey, the season's first, was born as a Gulf of Mexico squall in a wide low-pressure area. As it blew north, U.S. weather bureaus warned the Gulf Coast that a dangerously violent storm was on the way. But the bayou people of extreme southwestern Louisiana felt secure in their swamp-girded isolation and their simple faiths ("I wasn't much afraid," said one woman, "because the Lord told us he would never destroy this earth with water again"). Many of them stayed in their homes-and Audrey killed them in a day of sheerest horror...
Grand Chenier and Johnsons Bayou ("Those towns are nothing but hills in the swamp," said Cameron Parish Sheriff O. B. Carter) rolled Audrey's vicious tidal wave, ripping and twisting hundreds of homes, crumpling four fuel storage tanks under the hurled weight of a huge offshore oil barge, flinging two 50-ft. fishing boats onto the main street of Cameron (pop. 3,000), the seat and only incorporated town of the parish...
...Mother catches her at it: "Whatever were you burning? It smells very funny." Most readers will agree, but Daddy is recalled to his responsibilities, the Labor Party and Mother. Novelist Murdoch's plain moral: better a dull fate than an absurd adventure. But the figure of Rain, that Audrey Hepburn sprite, has become an obsessively recur rent character in Iris Murdoch's work, suggesting that inside every female philosopher there is a pixy struggling to be let out to play...
Fred Astair's face is a lot funnier than Audrey Hepburn's believe us. They both gambol about, sing and fall in love at the Paramount and Fenway. Funny Face...
...rest of the picture, involving about 90 minutes more of the customer's time and pretty nearly $3,000,000 of the producer's money, is written to the thesis that Audrey Hepburn is really just a dud who can happen to wear duds. It's a hard one to prove. Actress Hepburn not only looks her limpid best from first to last; she also does some snazzy dancing (she is better solo than with Astaire), and even sings effectively in a sort of absinthetic Sprechstimme with a touch of wood alcohol in the low notes...