Paula Prentiss

The Parallax View -- An ambitious reporter gets in way over his head trouble while investigating a senator?s assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the worlds headlines.

A smart-mouthed junkie known as J.J. spends his days looking for just "one more fix."

Peter Sellers plays self-centered concert pianist Henry Orient. While Henry's active libido sends him off on pursuit of married woman Paula Prentiss, a pair of preteen boarding-school chums worship Orient from afar. The girls' overworked imaginations, manifested in pursuing Orient about and recording their fantasies in their diaries, leads Walker's mom (Angela Lansbury) to conclude that Henry has "had his way" with her underaged daughter.

Mike Nichols superbly directed this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy, the tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together, they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. Catch-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions.