Cinema: Tired Tabby

What's New Pussycat? is a comedy built on so many shaky assumptions that it ought to sue for nonsupport. It seems logical to anticipate fun aplenty when a cordon of first-rate talents gather to make the fur fly, but on this mournful occasion all hands appear joined in a conspiracy to leave Pussycat out in the rain.

Peter O'Toole deserves the faintest applause for his fussy posturing as a Parisian fashion editor. He is supposedly irresistible to women, and they to him. So he delays marrying a determined fraĆ¼lein (Romy Schneider), consults a sex-crazed...

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