January 14 movie: Bachelor in Paradise. We recorded this movie because we thought it included the utterly amazing song "Aruba Liberace." Alas, "Aruba Liberace" is on the CD compilation called "Bachelor in Paradise," but it isn't in the movie Bachelor in Paradise. It's actually in the movie When the Boys Meet the Girls.
But since we had Bachelor in Paradise on the DVR, I went ahead and watched it anyway. It was an early 60s sex comedy with Bob Hope as a travel writer whose hugely successful series How the French/Italians/Swedish/etc. Live focuses on the sex lives of various nations. In the movie Hope moves into a planned community in California called Paradise to work on his next book, How the Americans Live. Lana Turner plays the only unmarried woman in the development.
The first half of the movie is hilarious. Hope gives daily seminars to the Paradise housewives on how to improve their sex lives, with generally disastrous results. Unfortunately when the movie changes focus to Hope and Turner it bogs down and becomes much less fun. Still, I liked Turner's character: a divorcee career woman who's built a pretty decent life for herself, and isn't sitting around waiting for a man to step in and take over.
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