Cinema: Father Lusts Best

JACQUELINE SUSANN'S ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH

Directed by GUY GREEN Screenplay by JULIUS J. EPSTEIN

There is something exhilarating about inadvertent comedy. Few things are as bracing as the spectacle of a lot of people spending good money trying to be serious and making fools of them selves. By these standards, Jacqueline Susann 's Once Is Not Enough is an accidentally entertaining piece of work.

No Big Thing. A project like this must be mounted with both reverence for the source material and fearless vulgarity. Such qualities are in evidence here, as Damon Runyon...

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