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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... felt as close to Lew as I've ever felt , then I stepped onto an ice floe and pushed myself out to sea . I've seen a thousand movies , she writes , but I'm still no good at love . Harriet puts down her pen and goes to the window . Her ...
... felt as close to Lew as I've ever felt , then I stepped onto an ice floe and pushed myself out to sea . I've seen a thousand movies , she writes , but I'm still no good at love . Harriet puts down her pen and goes to the window . Her ...
Page 136
... felt sympathy but not pity . Her mother would have felt pity , but Dinah be- longed to another generation . Her father , too , had been a devoted dad . She used to think all Jewish men were the same , but then she went to New York and ...
... felt sympathy but not pity . Her mother would have felt pity , but Dinah be- longed to another generation . Her father , too , had been a devoted dad . She used to think all Jewish men were the same , but then she went to New York and ...
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... felt herself relax . At least , she felt that relaxing might be possible , if all the mouths in the room would only stay shut . But at the first close - up of Tony Curtis , Leah grouched , " See ? Mr. Pretty Face . " Then Dinah Dinah ...
... felt herself relax . At least , she felt that relaxing might be possible , if all the mouths in the room would only stay shut . But at the first close - up of Tony Curtis , Leah grouched , " See ? Mr. Pretty Face . " Then Dinah Dinah ...
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