Garbo LaughsThis is a quixotic tale about movie love. Harriet Browning is so saturated with old movies, seen repeatedly and swallowed whole, that she no longer fits into this world. Equally addicted are her three companions-of-the-screen: a son who loves Frank Sinatra, a daughter with Bette Davis eyes, and an earthy sidekick named after Dinah Shore. Breaking in upon this quiet backwater come two refugees from Hollywood, the jaded widow of a famous screenwriter and her movie-expert stepson. They are Harsh Reality. With them come blackouts, arguments, accidents, illness, and sudden death. But what chance does real life stand when we can watch movies instead? In this brilliant, sad-eyed comedy of secondhand desire, movies and movie lovers come first. |
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... aunt's flattering , tyrannical eye . Leah went through as many servants as Harriet's father went through dental nurses . A panther in the kitchen . Moody , unpredictable , muscular in her watchful- ness . In later years , on return ...
... aunt's flattering , tyrannical eye . Leah went through as many servants as Harriet's father went through dental nurses . A panther in the kitchen . Moody , unpredictable , muscular in her watchful- ness . In later years , on return ...
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... aunt would fall and break a hip , and then they would never be rid of her . Dinah had been on the phone to Fiona Chester , and Fiona had told her about a bad ice storm during the war when soldiers had to break up the ice on Bank Street ...
... aunt would fall and break a hip , and then they would never be rid of her . Dinah had been on the phone to Fiona Chester , and Fiona had told her about a bad ice storm during the war when soldiers had to break up the ice on Bank Street ...
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... aunt , " she said . But Leah didn't need to be reminded of that . " Then you should treat me better . " Leah picked up her coffee spoon , dis- lodging Harriet's hand , and said , " I wor- shiped the ground my aunt walked on , and she ...
... aunt , " she said . But Leah didn't need to be reminded of that . " Then you should treat me better . " Leah picked up her coffee spoon , dis- lodging Harriet's hand , and said , " I wor- shiped the ground my aunt walked on , and she ...
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