Sometimes Ritchie makes his simplistic points simplistically: past - it Barbie doll Feldon pushes her lonely, tendresse - starved husband away and we're left looking at the blue - green - lit TV dinners in her freezer (the word «frigid» is mercifully delayed till their next interview); Michael Kidd,
as a gruffly sentimental directorial superstar engaged by the local Jaycees to stage the spectacular,
watches the Antelope Valley girl turn an onstage fumble into a sympathy - inducing bonus and murmurs, «They learn fast» (a mere reaction - shot cut to him at this point would have verged on the excessive; the line kills any validity the moment might have had); a drummer (screenwriter Jerry Belson, no less)
watches one
contestant segue into a striptease whose impiications are hilariously ambivalent in the context of so much plastic puffery, then exchanges glances with the orchestra leader and gives his drumstick a ribald stroke.