Post by ReformedLiberal on Sept 25, 2010 7:11:22 GMT -8
Fitzwilly, as a metaphor for post-modern politics, Democratic Party style.
Mr. Fitzwilliam, played by a young Dick VanDyke, is a butler for an elderly matron with a generous heart, and an empty bank account. Her late husband left her a sizeable estate, but she piddles it away giving to every charity case that calls her on the phone or shows up on her doorstep. To keep the household finances afloat, and keep his job, he conspires with other domestic servants from around town to rob, steal, and embezzle from their employers so that his can continue to give to the poor.
In steps a young college girl, played by the adorable Barbara Feldon, who answers the matron’s add for a stenographer who would take dictation of a "Dictionary for Dopes" which is more of Thesaurus-like compendium of all possible phonetic spellings of a word, along with the correct one, which every publisher ignores until they come to find that it is laced with the old lady’s memoirs and juicy, scandalous anecdotes involving her late husband’s many highly respected acquaintances. Fitzwilly does his best to keep the co-ed out, and when that fails he must keep her nose out of the underhanded conspiracy while she has the virtual run of the house. When she finally catches him in the act, he charms her with his Svengali-like charisma and converts her to the cause. Her initial impulse to report Fitzwilly to the authorities is replaced with an almost overzealous crusader mentality and she becomes an integral member of the gang, for whom the ends justify the means.
Mr. Fitzwilliam, played by a young Dick VanDyke, is a butler for an elderly matron with a generous heart, and an empty bank account. Her late husband left her a sizeable estate, but she piddles it away giving to every charity case that calls her on the phone or shows up on her doorstep. To keep the household finances afloat, and keep his job, he conspires with other domestic servants from around town to rob, steal, and embezzle from their employers so that his can continue to give to the poor.
In steps a young college girl, played by the adorable Barbara Feldon, who answers the matron’s add for a stenographer who would take dictation of a "Dictionary for Dopes" which is more of Thesaurus-like compendium of all possible phonetic spellings of a word, along with the correct one, which every publisher ignores until they come to find that it is laced with the old lady’s memoirs and juicy, scandalous anecdotes involving her late husband’s many highly respected acquaintances. Fitzwilly does his best to keep the co-ed out, and when that fails he must keep her nose out of the underhanded conspiracy while she has the virtual run of the house. When she finally catches him in the act, he charms her with his Svengali-like charisma and converts her to the cause. Her initial impulse to report Fitzwilly to the authorities is replaced with an almost overzealous crusader mentality and she becomes an integral member of the gang, for whom the ends justify the means.