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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... dark , humid , relaxed air where they themselves had walked twelve years before on the Malécon , the wide side- walk that hugged the harbor with the ocean on the left , Old Havana on the right , the colonial fort a large , dark bulk far ...
... dark , humid , relaxed air where they themselves had walked twelve years before on the Malécon , the wide side- walk that hugged the harbor with the ocean on the left , Old Havana on the right , the colonial fort a large , dark bulk far ...
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... dark , he would do anything to be in the darkness . He even begged his mother to let him bring the clothes in off the line at night . After the war he found the darkness inadequate . But he fixed that . He took his life at thirty - five ...
... dark , he would do anything to be in the darkness . He even begged his mother to let him bring the clothes in off the line at night . After the war he found the darkness inadequate . But he fixed that . He took his life at thirty - five ...
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... dark exterior . " I'll give you the key , " she said to Lew at her side , " and ? would you go in later and check on the furnace ? " Of course he would . Then he looked around too , from one end of the street to the other , and re ...
... dark exterior . " I'll give you the key , " she said to Lew at her side , " and ? would you go in later and check on the furnace ? " Of course he would . Then he looked around too , from one end of the street to the other , and re ...
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