Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...equivalent of a coffee-table art book-handsome to look at but not very deep. All in all, however, Clark's tour is as impressive as might be expected when one of today's most literate and engaging art writers joins forces with the vivid immediacy of film documentary at its best. "What I hope people will get from it is a belief in humanity with all its shortcomings, a belief in a balance of intellectual and emotional faculties, and a belief in man as a whole...
...worth $185 million in exchange for the stock of Paramount Pictures. At the time, Paramount's assets had a book value of $100 million, so Gulf & Western recorded the assets as costing only $100 million. One year later, G. & W. sold to television studios the right to show films from the Paramount library at a profit that it reported as $22 million. Briloff thinks that profit is misleading, because Gulf & Western showed on its books only part of what it had paid for Paramount's assets, including the film library. An investor who remembered the market value...
...film's most telling episode, a subject is asked to group unfamiliar words under two headings, clean and dirty. Fugue, she decides is a clean, but titillate and thespian are both dirties. Thus, the film implies, words cannot be untainted if the mind is unwashed. It is the unintended moral of the movie. Sexually, What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? is a clean. Ethically, it is a dirty...
...they were lifelines; at the card and crap tables, aggressive customers line up like lambs for the fleecing. Like a Vegas concession, The Only Game in Town is a tempting trap. The odds look attractive: Elizabeth Taylor back at her fighting weight, Warren Beatty in his first film since Bonnie and Clyde, both directed by George Stevens (Shane, Giant). But the result is as empty as a croupier's spiel...
...them with crapped-out dialogue: "I've met some nuts in my time, but you take the cake," "Never darken my door again unless it's for keeps," and "Which is worse, the heart abused or the heart unused?" For those who cannot answer that question, the film provides a clue: when the boy friend finally arrives with a divorce decree, ten-carat ring and oleaginous smirk, Fran decides that Real Love, after all, is the only game in town...