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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... tree down . Come spring , he said . He was going to put in a pool . If that tree weren't there , he told everyone , he could drop a swimming pool into his backyard and have room left over . As if to accustom his ap- palled neighbors to ...
... tree down . Come spring , he said . He was going to put in a pool . If that tree weren't there , he told everyone , he could drop a swimming pool into his backyard and have room left over . As if to accustom his ap- palled neighbors to ...
Page 248
... trees . Rabbits were about . She saw their tracks on either side of the path as she skied down to join Lew : sizable ... tree was too heavy to move . They went around it on their skis . After a while they stopped to eat oranges . Harriet ...
... trees . Rabbits were about . She saw their tracks on either side of the path as she skied down to join Lew : sizable ... tree was too heavy to move . They went around it on their skis . After a while they stopped to eat oranges . Harriet ...
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... tree to hide his face . Not a sound issued from the rack of branches that sprouted from his torso . Or trunk , she thought . The oldest oak tree in Ottawa . He must have come outside in the middle of the night to check on the trees ...
... tree to hide his face . Not a sound issued from the rack of branches that sprouted from his torso . Or trunk , she thought . The oldest oak tree in Ottawa . He must have come outside in the middle of the night to check on the trees ...
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