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...HAPPY HOOKER...
...Happy Hooker was made on location in Manhattan and seems to use New York's most bleakly excessive character actors. Many of them are familiar from the Broadway stage and, indeed, do their bits as if filling in the time between the matinee and the evening performance. Not the most professional attitude, perhaps, but in this case worthy of a little sympathy...
...photographers armed with Polaroid cameras still tried to hustle a few piasters out of foreign correspondents they mistook for tourists. The piaster rate, perhaps the best war barometer in town, shot up from 2,000 to 3,900 for one U.S. dollar in four days. For a time, a hooker could be hired for less than $1. But when hopes for a cease-fire rose, the piaster rate dropped to 1,500 per dollar...
Representative Wilbur Mills, 65, was out of the hospital and convalescing at his Arlington, Va., apartment last week, an apparently lonely man. Annabella Battistella, 38, alias Fanne Foxe, was in Connecticut meeting with Author Robin Moore (The Green Berets, The Happy Hooker), who may write an authorized biography of the Washington Tidal Basin Bombshell. "There is some pressure," said Moore, "as apparently Gore Vidal is writing an unauthorized biography," a statement denied by Vidal's publisher. In his preliminary research, Moore has been impressed by the devotion of Wilbur and Anna to each other. "She really does love...
...during that early scene or it may be shortly after, when Hildy spits out a bit of Wilder-Diamond dialogue and Carol Burnett goes into a strident impersonation of a cut-rate hooker, that the movie curdles. But the thought occurs very early on that the latest The Front Page is an odd place to find Billy Wilder. The sap and the snap are gone...