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SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL
June 23, 2012  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

Here’s another Natalie Wood feature –set squarely in the time, place and world now reimagined by Mad Men. Wood plays Helen Gurley Brown, the psychologist who wrote a bestseller describing the new freedom of young single women in the early 1960s. Tony Curtis plays a tabloid magazine reporter who sets out to entrap her and write an exposé – and the attitudes, fashion and observations in this film are, for anyone interested in the period, revelatory. And her’s something else interesting: one of the writers of the screenplay is Joseph Heller, three years after he published Catch-22.

 
 
 
 
 
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