What's New Pussycat?

Remember playboys? The guys, not the magazine. Playboys were a hot topic in sixties cinema: James Coburn, Tony Franciosa, Dean Martin, and countless carousing others. Few were as neurotically possessed as Michael James (Peter O'Toole), editor of a Paris-based fashion magazine who's always after a fashion. Even his equally demented therapist Fritz Fassbender (a loopy-locked Peter Sellers) can't break him of his kitten conquest fixation. Woody Allen's first feature script is an antic Parisian party, filled with feline femmes like Romy Schneider, Paula Prentiss, and Ursula Andress. Howled by Tom Jones, the famous Burt Bacharach theme song is like a ribald anthem for the oversexed. Whoa whoa whoa whoa.

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