Review of The Only Game in Town

As late as 1970, the old Hollywood star system still worked and still sold. Elizabeth Taylor and five years younger Warren Beatty fill the screen with their charm and beauty, and that's more than enough to carry Frank D. Gilroy's play "The Only Game in Town." As a dividend, Liz has her three-time director George Stevens to shepherd her. They electrified audiences in the 1950s with "A Place in the Sun" and "Giant." Paying her own way and working as a Vegas dance hall girl, Fran (Liz, who was 38 at the time) is waiting for her multi-millionaire boyfriend to get his divorce. Fran meets Joe (Beatty) at a piano bar. Fran invites Joe to share expenses by sharing her apartment. They vow not to fall in love. Well, you know how that's going to pan out. This is a stylish, tempting dish when you have an appetite for glossy, goopy cuisine. Dig in.