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Title: The Tender Trap. by Max Shulman, Robert Paul Smith ISBN: 0-8222-1118-1 Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Love is the Tender Trap
Comment: I read this book with my 13 year old daughter. Out loud. She did all the female parts. I did all the male parts. She'd already read most of Max Shulman's books. Sure this one was a little adult. But I'm sure I was more embarrassed than she was!

Then we watched the movie. It's kind of strange watching a movie for the first time when you already know every line before the actors say them!

Anyway, I wouldn't rate this as Shulman's or Smith's best work. I've been told that they didn't get along that well. But it's still worth reading.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great to see it's still in print
Comment: Sexist or not, period piece or not, "Tender Trap" is still a lot of fun to read. Max Shulman's work was always about the battle between the sexes, and as that battlefield changed, some of his stuff, inevitably, got left behind enemy lines (That metaphor doesn't actually work, but you know what I mean). Robert Smith also wrote one of my favorite childhood books, "Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing." And I think he and his wife did "The Great Big Messy Book," which was an absolute delight. Hey, Smith Junior-- drop me a note at [email protected] to tell me if I'm right about that.

Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful to see my dad's work is still appreciated
Comment: It's wonderful to see the work of my father, Robert Paul Smith, still in print, and apparently still well-liked.

Obviously, I'm not going to give it less than five stars, but, personally, I see "The Tender Trap" as a kind of period piece, which in 1999 seems as embarrassingly sexist as a Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie. And although it is a well-constructed play, I am surprised that others see it as having more substance than, say, a really first-rate television sitcom...

The movie version is available in video cassette, and, to the best of my recollection (hey, I was eight years old at the time) reasonably faithful to the stage version. With, of course, the addition of the wonderful Sammy Cahn title song, which has probably done as much as anything to keep the play's memory alive.

I would be interested in having the previous reviewer contact me. (I have to wonder whether it's one of Max Shulman's kids...)