Re: What potential

On Fri, 04 May 2007 16:45:38 -0400, Gogarty <Gogarty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>In article <apcl33164o7jdnbqipiplgm65b8ik1h2tr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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nymnuts@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
>says...
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>>'Bob&Carol'?  If you did revert to troll mode, 
>>or maybe troll-baiting, I might suggest that 
>>you become 'Ted&Alice'.  I *think* there was 
>>once (early seventies?) a film called 'Bob & 
>>Carol & Ted & Alice' or similar.  I forgot what 
>>the film was about.  (maybe wife-swapping?)
>>
>Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Not seventies, Sixties. Starred Elliot Gould
among 
>others. Would be wife-swapping. Promo showed four people in one bed.
Pretty 
>tame by today's standards. I suppose Wikipedia would tell all.

Wikipedia?  I'll give it a try.  

Ahh, yes:

 >After a weekend of emotional honesty at an 
 >Esalen-style retreat, Los Angeles sophisticates 
 >Bob and Carol Sanders (played by Robert Culp and 
 >Natalie Wood) return to their life determined to 
 >embrace free love and complete openness. Bob and 
 >Carol happily reveal their ensuing love affairs 
 >to everyone, sparking the curiosity and repulsion 
 >of their more conservative close friends Ted and 
 >Alice Henderson (Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon).
 >
 >When the two couples travel together to Las Vegas, 
 >Ted admits an affair of his own. An outraged Alice 
 >demands that this new ethos be taken to its obvious 
 >conclusion: a mate-sharing foursome. Too old to be 
 >hippies and too young to be fogies, they sincerely 
 >attempt to try on the swinging lifestyle. But before 
 >they can begin, doubts arise.

<yawn>  Now I see why it never sparked much 
interest for me.  I never was a devout fan 
of American cinema to begin with, and this 
film really would be no exception.  I never 
saw it, only read about it.

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nymnuts©