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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... side of the canal like a small city on the far side of a plain to which the traveller is destined to go . She liked , at night especially , to stand in her boots , or on her skis , and stare across at the ribbon of city lights , the ...
... side of the canal like a small city on the far side of a plain to which the traveller is destined to go . She liked , at night especially , to stand in her boots , or on her skis , and stare across at the ribbon of city lights , the ...
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... side , " and ? would you go in later and check on the furnace ? " Of course he would . Then he looked around too , from one end of the street to the other , and re- marked that it was like a frozen Havana . No traffic , almost as dark ...
... side , " and ? would you go in later and check on the furnace ? " Of course he would . Then he looked around too , from one end of the street to the other , and re- marked that it was like a frozen Havana . No traffic , almost as dark ...
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... Side Story , and she was fired by McCall's and didn't write about movies for a year . " " She didn't like West Side Story ? " Kenny was incredulous . He'd been stretched out on the floor , one leg twisted through a stool , and now he ...
... Side Story , and she was fired by McCall's and didn't write about movies for a year . " " She didn't like West Side Story ? " Kenny was incredulous . He'd been stretched out on the floor , one leg twisted through a stool , and now he ...
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