A summer fling in Paris: what could be more romantic? How about flinging it with two expat jazz musicians, played by Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier? When Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie (Diahann Carroll) descend on the Left Bank, they quickly hook up with the right guys, Ram Bowen (dig that crazy pun) (Newman), a trombone player searching for his muse, and Eddie Cook (Poitier), a black saxophonist fleeing racism in the United States. Paris Blues is a cover of the French New Wave. Club 33, where the hipness happens, is all cool decor, artsy cuts, and groovy rags. As sage Sidney says to comely Carroll, “We are the night people and it's a whole different world.” There are moments when it really is different, for instance, when Wild Man Moore (played by the unstoppable Louis Armstrong) lays out a grand rendition of “Battle Royal,” neutering Newman's trombone. And getting props for propping it all up is Duke Ellington's score, allegedly arranged by Billy Strayhorn, heavy stuff in the City of Light.