Word: samantha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun is Samantha Eggar, who takes her boss's car on an impromptu holiday drive in the south of France and gets herself involved en route in an increasingly perplexing and complex series of sinister incidents. Is she going mad? Was she already mad? Is she being used for some nefarious purpose...
...shows have been triumphs of vulgarityjust most of them. In between the mice-bombing-the-cat and Samantha-fixes-the-plumbing repeats, there has been some tasteful and educational fare. Mr. I Magination took kids on gentle fictional trips, won awardsand lost sponsorship. The science-oriented Mr. Wizard lasted 14 years, was canceled in 1965. Ding Dong School, starring Dr. Frances Horwich, was a gentle, preschool program that provided a nannyish instructor for a babysitter. She, too, became an unreplaced dropout...
...Samantha. The films themselves ranged from underground polemics to sleek Hollywood productions. Jean-Luc Godard, in the epicenter of the revolution as always, offered West Wind, written in part by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. The film has its practical side: there are detailed descriptions of how to make gasoline bombs, fuses and timers. From the other side of the Atlantic came M.A.S.H., Woodstock, and a film still unreleased in the U.S., The Strawberry Statement...
Directed by Stuart Hagmann and written by Israel Horovitz, Strawberry Statement is based on James Kunen's informal memoirs of the Columbia University rebellion of 1968. "I want to reach Sam and Samantha in Aurora, Illinois," Hagmann says. "I want people to say, That's just like my kids.' " If Sam and Samantha say anything of the sort, it will be because their kids have taken up campus revolution for no more discernible reasons than sex and excitement. Despite endless minutes of sirens, screams, clubs and tear gas at the finale, Strawberry Statement only manages to make...
Susan Saved. At this point, the soundtrack voice interrupts: "As a prostitute, Samantha Jane makes 20 times as much as she'd make as a secretary." The scene shows a young man and a big-bosomed brunette in what appears to be a motel room. Says the brunette: "I need it all the time now." Says Mrs. Shriver: "You make a film like this for a couple of thousand dollars and gross ten or twenty times as much. All you need is a bed, a photographer, and a man and a woman...