Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s
I’ve been revisiting this oddity in the hope that maybe I was too quick to condemn what was, in some respects, one of the quirkiest pictures ever made. Alas, time has been no kinder.
One of the biggest-ever movie follies, an overblown vanity project with Fellini-esque overtones – written, directed, produced and starring British crooner Anthony Newley (Doctor Dolittle, 1967) – that turned into the first X-rated musical. Bob Fosse mined a similar, almost as seedy, sex-obsessed autobiographical vein in All That Jazz (1979) to critical acclaim whereas the Newley effort met critical coruscation….