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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... interest to greater interest to boredom to a new level of appetite . Appetite grows with eating , as they say in Quebec . At a certain point , I am satiated and the movie is put back on the shelf . But I still have the memory of the ...
... interest to greater interest to boredom to a new level of appetite . Appetite grows with eating , as they say in Quebec . At a certain point , I am satiated and the movie is put back on the shelf . But I still have the memory of the ...
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... interest in you is certain to vanish at the first minor test . Outside , the early warmth brought buds to the point of bursting . She could hear them popping in the night like tiny fish leaping out of water . Pale sources of mi- nuscule ...
... interest in you is certain to vanish at the first minor test . Outside , the early warmth brought buds to the point of bursting . She could hear them popping in the night like tiny fish leaping out of water . Pale sources of mi- nuscule ...
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... interest too . He said it after she hunched away from him in bed , too tired , too indifferent to even talk ; and his words irked her . He'd turned out the light . A few hours later she woke bathed in sweat and he spoke to her the way ...
... interest too . He said it after she hunched away from him in bed , too tired , too indifferent to even talk ; and his words irked her . He'd turned out the light . A few hours later she woke bathed in sweat and he spoke to her the way ...
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