Winner! Winner! Winner! Winner!
Highly recommended if it ever hits late night TV.
Elaine May (Who's that?) and Walter Matthau.
The movie starts out in an operating room, a telemetry monitor beep, beep, beeps out a pulse. White coated surgeons work fastidiously while Walter Matthau paces nervously in an empty waiting room. Finally, one of them comes into the waiting room to break the news to Matthau - "There's carbon on the valves" The patient is a late model Jaguar.
He is a wealthy playboy who has squandered his families money - he is broke. He doesn't even understand the word "broke". So, in order to reclaim his lifestyle, he decided to marry money. Enter Elaine May (Who, in response to "Who's that?" is the star, writer and director of A New Leaf) as Henrietta Lowell - a socially awkward but very wealthy educator research botanist.
Other wonderful exchanges include:
Henry Graham: Oh, no. I forgot to check her before she went to school this morning. Shell be walking around all day with price tags dangling from her sleeves.
Harold: I took the liberty, sir.
Henry Graham: Thank you, Harold. Was she free of crumbs?
Harold: Only a slight sprinkling, sir.
Henrietta: Have you ever tasted Mogen-David extra-heavy Malaga wine with soda water and lime juice?
and
Henry Graham: ...Never have I seen one woman in whom every social grace was so lacking. Did I say she was primitive? I retract that. Shes feral. Ive never spent a more physically destructive evening in my life. I am nauseated. I limp. And I can feel my teeth rotting away from an excess of sugar that no amount of toothpaste can dislodge. I will taste those damn Milago coolers forever. That woman is a menace not only to health, but to western civilization as we know it.
A MUST SEE if you ever have a chance!
You're up, Lazuka!
Nope. Still haven't a clue.
