Cinema: Squaring the Triangle

Not with My Wife, You Don't! Triangles are square. But if one is carefully constructed with the right angle of absurdity and a base line of chatter, it can occasionally make intriguing trigonometry. The angle in this picture, as it happens, is pretty obtuse: the Air Farce, according to the script, is a gland-based gang of joystick jockeys who do almost nothing but make low-level attacks on garters of opportunity. As a result, the triangle in this picture is anything but acute. But it's cute, real cute.

At the apex stands Virna Lisi, a...

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