It was a hit 1961 romantic comedy that starred Doris Day and Rock Hudson....Lover Come Back. I would have been eleven or twelve when I saw it....which in itself is sad....and Donald Trump would have been sixteen or seventeen. Looking back on it....it is an epitaph on the beginning of the end of America.
Day and Hudson have rival ad agencies. Hudson is a womanizer who has no ethics....(Trump)....Day is the honest one....(conservatives)....who has no respect for someone like Hudson....who in one of his flings makes a fake commercial for a girl....supposedly about a new product called VIP.....(not V. I. P.....but vip)....trying to pay her off....but the commercial mistakenly gets put on television....and causes a sensation. Hudson needs a real product quickly or he is in legal trouble. So he has one created. It's a....candy....that's what it is....a candy....that really gives you a boost!
The problem is that the chemical creation of VIP makes you act like you are drunk. Two lines I remember from what....almost sixty years ago....are Tony Randall's after taking VIP....."What thinks you make I've been drinking"....and....."I think I've had tee many Martunis."
Donald Trump advertised himself as VIP....for president....for a couple of decades....and after his 2015 escalator ride took off he needed a real product....and created one.....the problem being it has conservatives saying things like....'What thinks you make I've been thinking?"
Hudson and Day got married in the film....so did Trump and conservatives....only in film....after the last take....actors go back to their real lives....but with us....it's been a battered spouse syndrome where we are afraid to seek a divorce.
