Theater
May, 1973
Jean Kerr's Finishing Touches is a comedy about being too late---too late for a meno-pausing professor to chance a fling with a seductive young actress, too late for his 40-year-old housewife to let herself be swept off her feet by a Don Juanly neighbor. Unfortunately, it's also too late for the sort of comedy in which the husband delays his prospective affair to buy Gelusil at the drugstore, in which the wife is astonished and outraged that her Harvard-senior son is sharing his college bed with...