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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... fall , Pauline's old movie reviews were the only things she could read . Reviews of movies she had never seen , most ... falls into which actors and directors con- sistently fell . The greatest trap , she gathered , was wanting your ...
... fall , Pauline's old movie reviews were the only things she could read . Reviews of movies she had never seen , most ... falls into which actors and directors con- sistently fell . The greatest trap , she gathered , was wanting your ...
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... falling and muck on the roads . It was a beautiful day . She drove to Eganville to see her father , who had lost the use of his right arm after a stroke , and he said to her , I feel that I've wasted my life in idleness . By early ...
... falling and muck on the roads . It was a beautiful day . She drove to Eganville to see her father , who had lost the use of his right arm after a stroke , and he said to her , I feel that I've wasted my life in idleness . By early ...
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... fall on the table like a pair of gloves , to use someone else's excellent phrase . — North of England read aloud his ... Falls . The year they stopped the American falls to make repairs 202.
... fall on the table like a pair of gloves , to use someone else's excellent phrase . — North of England read aloud his ... Falls . The year they stopped the American falls to make repairs 202.
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