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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... pictures her father's penis when she screws . Dinah chokes on her biscuit . She waves one hand helplessly in the air ... Picture it ? " " Does it " And now Harriet blushes . Even she takes a while to catch up to her questions . " Does it ...
... pictures her father's penis when she screws . Dinah chokes on her biscuit . She waves one hand helplessly in the air ... Picture it ? " " Does it " And now Harriet blushes . Even she takes a while to catch up to her questions . " Does it ...
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... picture in the photo album . Yes , she had a brother . His picture is here too . Neither man looked anything like the man in the hallway . The man in the hallway looked exactly like Lew . Harriet listened to her mother's low , clear ...
... picture in the photo album . Yes , she had a brother . His picture is here too . Neither man looked anything like the man in the hallway . The man in the hallway looked exactly like Lew . Harriet listened to her mother's low , clear ...
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... pictures of Lew . One picture included her , the other did not . She put the pictures side by side . She compared his face in the photo that included her with his face in the photo taken ten months earlier , before they had met , and ...
... pictures of Lew . One picture included her , the other did not . She put the pictures side by side . She compared his face in the photo that included her with his face in the photo taken ten months earlier , before they had met , and ...
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