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[Fwd: Lolita and Billy Wilder]
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Here's one:
"Kiss Me, Stupid," 1962, with Dean Martin ("Dino"), Kim Novak ("Polly
the
Pistol"), Ray Walston ("Orville J. Spooner"), and Felicia Farr
("Zelda 'Lambchop' Spooner). Walston, fearing the milk man, the dentist,
and every other man--and boy--in town is after his pretty wife, hurls an
unsuspecting 14 year old piano student out of his house, yelling after
him, "You male Lolita!"
A humorously disturbing film: Piano teacher Spooner wants womanizing
lounge-
lizard Dino to buy his songs, and offers up his wife as an inducement.
He
can't offer his real wife (Lambchop), though--that would be wrong.
Instead
he hires Polly, hooker-with-a-heart..., to play his wife for the night.
Lambchop, in a huff, decides to play Polly for the night, and when Dino,
who's been rebuffed by Polly (now smitten with super-sensitive if
slightly
schlumpy Orville), goes looking for love for sale, well, you can guess
the
rest.
If not a gem, at least a cubic zirconium, no?
Sarah Funke
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc.
19 East 76th Street
NYC 10021
(212) 327-3538
Here's one:
"Kiss Me, Stupid," 1962, with Dean Martin ("Dino"), Kim Novak ("Polly
the
Pistol"), Ray Walston ("Orville J. Spooner"), and Felicia Farr
("Zelda 'Lambchop' Spooner). Walston, fearing the milk man, the dentist,
and every other man--and boy--in town is after his pretty wife, hurls an
unsuspecting 14 year old piano student out of his house, yelling after
him, "You male Lolita!"
A humorously disturbing film: Piano teacher Spooner wants womanizing
lounge-
lizard Dino to buy his songs, and offers up his wife as an inducement.
He
can't offer his real wife (Lambchop), though--that would be wrong.
Instead
he hires Polly, hooker-with-a-heart..., to play his wife for the night.
Lambchop, in a huff, decides to play Polly for the night, and when Dino,
who's been rebuffed by Polly (now smitten with super-sensitive if
slightly
schlumpy Orville), goes looking for love for sale, well, you can guess
the
rest.
If not a gem, at least a cubic zirconium, no?
Sarah Funke
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc.
19 East 76th Street
NYC 10021
(212) 327-3538