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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Elizabeth Hay. coffee shop on Bank Street , having ordered the wrong thing : something small and ex- pensive instead of the larger special that came with free coffee . So busy was she trying to figure out what a Turkey Tempta- tion might ...
Elizabeth Hay. coffee shop on Bank Street , having ordered the wrong thing : something small and ex- pensive instead of the larger special that came with free coffee . So busy was she trying to figure out what a Turkey Tempta- tion might ...
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... coffee with her left , and the long left sleeve of the kimono brushed against the gas burner and went up in flames . Dinah would find her an hour later at the kitchen table , drinking the coffee she had made at great cost to herself ...
... coffee with her left , and the long left sleeve of the kimono brushed against the gas burner and went up in flames . Dinah would find her an hour later at the kitchen table , drinking the coffee she had made at great cost to herself ...
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... coffee on the stove , " she said to Dinah , not getting up . And that's all she said . Almost against her will she could feel it happening her brain embraced the histrionic underside of pain . She would perform a bitter little ...
... coffee on the stove , " she said to Dinah , not getting up . And that's all she said . Almost against her will she could feel it happening her brain embraced the histrionic underside of pain . She would perform a bitter little ...
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