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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... laughed aloud , but he remembered the last time his wife did not . They were at the weekly meeting of the Society of ... laughed no - neck Vanessa laughed the loudest and Harriet led the clapping . A round of applause after every reader ...
... laughed aloud , but he remembered the last time his wife did not . They were at the weekly meeting of the Society of ... laughed no - neck Vanessa laughed the loudest and Harriet led the clapping . A round of applause after every reader ...
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... laughed aloud that very morning . Over Cathy , the comic strip . " Not Cathy , " protested the Shawl . " I love Cathy , " said Vanessa . Harriet intervened , perhaps too quickly . " Remember , " she said in her shapeless chalk ...
... laughed aloud that very morning . Over Cathy , the comic strip . " Not Cathy , " protested the Shawl . " I love Cathy , " said Vanessa . Harriet intervened , perhaps too quickly . " Remember , " she said in her shapeless chalk ...
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... laughed aloud was with her friend Leah . They were reading a review of a book called Moonglow and laughed to see it dismissed as " narcis- sistic twaddle . " Her friend felt vindicated because the author had written about her in an ...
... laughed aloud was with her friend Leah . They were reading a review of a book called Moonglow and laughed to see it dismissed as " narcis- sistic twaddle . " Her friend felt vindicated because the author had written about her in an ...
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