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...Poor 300-year-old beauty! People took her for a thief, for a liar, for a heartless animal. They called her beast, slut, they wanted to strangle her. And her fault? That she was doomed to live too long a time. I was sorry...
Princess Grace may have dallied with Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief. But Candice has been bedded by Elliott Gould in Getting Straight, deflowered by Bekim Fehmiu in The Adventurers and raped by Oliver Reed in The Hunting Party. Recalling TIME'S review of The Adventurers (March 30), she predicts more of the same for Hunting Party. "I can see the reviews now: 'Candice Bergen grimaces as she loses her virginity.' All I do in this film is get raped and have orgasms. But I've got the orgasms down...
...perhaps you're waiting for a taste of that real "cynical maturity"? In a number called "Sons Of" (now that's got possibilities!) we are told "Sons of the great or sons unknown... sons of tycoons or sons of the farms... sons of the thief or sons of the saint... all were children like your own." And, to buttress that good-feeling that's slowly beginning to spread through your burnt-out heart, the whole production ends with an overly serious and rousing piece, "If We Only Have Love...
...ignition locks of unattended cars. As a result, Chester Gorski of Rome, N.Y. has been ordered to pay $33,862 in damages because his stolen car was involved in a fatal collision. The plaintiff, whose wife was killed in the crash, had a persuasive witness-the car thief. Donald Smith, 18, who is now in jail as a youthful offender, testified that he downed 18 beers at a firemen's carnival, jumped into Gorski's car, found the key dangling from the ignition lock, and sped off at 70 m.p.h. Gorski insisted that he had hidden...
...presented himself as a monster with "a nose as big as a cannon and eyes as small as green peas"; one of his favorite images, which probably grew out of his regular disappointments in love and his otherwise suppressed resentment of women who had hurt him, was the "heart thief," depicted hanging from a gallows tree and clutching a human heart. The motif so obsessed him that he even worked it into a Christmas ornament of a masked dancer meant to be hung from a tree...