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Shirley, quite the other way, has a compulsion to give everything, including herself, away. When one of the bores and deadbeats she has befriended lets her down, she picks up another. When her nasty little painter friend Renata chooses to try a fake suicide the day after a real abortion, Shirley ditches her husband on a sacred Saturday evening he had reserved for taking her out to dinner and spends the night at Renata's flat. Philippe, ever logical, goes home to mother and has a liver attack. Shirley, forlorn and illogical, goes to a restaurant and picks...
...teacher (Melvin Stewart), a former Miss Sepia (Diana Sands), her eight-year-old son (Douglas Grant) and slightly deranged husband (Louis Gosset), and a worldly-wise den mother (Pearl Bailey) who feeds Elgar soul food and introduces him around. Friendships form fast. Elgar falls in love with a black painter and part-time go-go dancer (Marki Bey), then has a brief but pregnant liaison with Miss Sepia. But Elgar has been more hypnotized than radicalized by the blacks, and film's end finds him with his illegitimate son going in search of his lost go-go dancer...
...hero is an American painter who takes up antisubmarine duties in Cuba during World War II. The novel, Islands in the Stream, should have a start on this fall's bestseller list. It was written by that old man of the sea Ernest Hemingway. After months of poring over the 20-year-old manuscript, Papa's widow Mary asserts that it is "as good as anything he has ever written...
...prophets and saints, and art has its Pluches-aesthetic Jesuits, Leathernecks of creativity, defenders of aristocratic art-soul against bourgeois art-stomach, men of passion and appetite, of sublime ups and leaden downs. Pluche is a talented, unfashionable, moderately successful painter who is down-or, in Jean Dutourd's words, "chained down in hell amid the circle of the frivolous damned, where everything is mere diversion, where one only hears rank stupidities, where one only says stupidities oneself, where one is bored to death without ever dying...
...circle of the frivolous damned" than the world's petty annoyances close in. Brother Georges, a witless executive living far beyond his means and on the verge of ruin, asks for and gets the balance in Pluche's bank account. Brother-in-Law Mesnard, an immensely successful painter who sold his talent out to fashionable tastes, has taken up with a young bird and threatens the happiness of Pluche's sister Marie...