Maid
to Order
Because Amy Jones
signed this as co-screenwriter, it must be dismissed as a hopeless case, its
premises and consequences being simply a tangled mess of ill-conceived
presuppositions, at best. However, there is more to be said.
Since the Management
Revolution hit Hollywood, a curious phenomenon has taken place: it is now
common to see actors in false positions they are capable of ennobling with
their art in a sort of thrilling isolation. Here you see Dick Shawn in
abstraction personifying a character as well as the indefinable substance
Senator Kennedy called Courage. Similarly, Valerie Perrine’s ass in
riding-breeches is wit on wheels. Beverly D’Angelo’s Stella the
Fairy Godmother simply registers the enjoyment to be had in exercising such powers
“in a void.”